The poor think of themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires - John Steinbeck
The entrepreneurial spirit, the spirit of hustling and bustling, hawking, and gambling, money grubbing, the spirit of making one's fortune, working too damn hard, is choking the American proletariat, the mass of makers of goods and services
Chris S True, we worship businessmen and 'success=$' too much in the US. It's killing us.
Proletariat sounds dated though. Must be a better term. 36 mins · Edited · Unlike · 1 Charles Brown Persuading so many working class people, wage-laborers, unemployed, middle income, low income people to dream of "owning their own businesses", "being their own bosses", prepares a cadre with the mentality of lower and middle managers for the big bourgeoisie, sergeants and lieutenants in the mass production armies of wage laborers.
Proletariat = wage-laborers = 99%ers. Must use proletariat at the level of theoretical discussion, though. And it is very important to get Americans, including especially political activists, to THINK MORE THEORETICALLY AND HISTORICALLY.