External Proletariat

Famous quotes containing the words external and/or proletariat:

“The soul, he said, is composed
Of the external world.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century.... The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what’s left of them.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)