Peasant vs Proletariat - What's the difference?
peasant | proletariat |
A member of the lowly social class which toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture.
A country person.
An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
(strategy games ) a worker unit
The working class or lower class.
* {{quote-book
, page=173
, year=1906
, author=Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
, title=Manifesto of the Communist Party
The wage earners collectively, excluding salaried workers.
(history) In ancient Rome, the lowest class of citizens, who had no property.
As nouns the difference between peasant and proletariat
is that peasant is a member of the lowly social class which toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture while proletariat is the working class or lower class.peasant
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(wikipedia peasant)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (lowly social class ) peon, serf * churl * (country person ) rustic, villager * (crude person ) boorDerived terms
* peasantryAnagrams
*proletariat
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Alternative forms
* proletariateNoun
citation, passage="Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie to day the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class."}}