proletarianism

[ proh-li-tair-ee-uh-niz-uhm ]

noun

1. the practices, attitudes, or social status of a proletarian.

Word History and Origins

Origin of proletarianism¹

First recorded in 1860–65; proletarian + -ism

Example Sentences

The Five Points of the Star now apparently assured are the Purse, the Press, the Peerage, Palestine and Proletarianism.

From Project Gutenberg

Swayed by the ill-balanced spirit of the times, both schools developed extremist tendencies; the former producing such monstrous aberrations as Pan-Germanism and Pan-Slavism, the latter evolving almost equally vicious concepts like cosmopolitanism and proletarianism.

From Project Gutenberg

They had overturned feudalism, and now they had created proletarianism, which would soon swamp themselves.

From Project Gutenberg

He remained an obstinate idealist, however, whose faith in humanity's promise often tempted him into a sentimental proletarianism.

From The Guardian

Even this is not at first clear; but essentially we find this trait common to all the antecedents of proletarianism, that the movements hold fast to what was in the good old times.

From Project Gutenberg