proles
Laboring class members
Proles is the plural of prole, an informal and often dismissive term for members of the working class or common people.
The word is a clipping of proletariat.
George Orwell's *1984* gave it lasting currency, where proles are the masses kept ignorant and politically inert: The proles don't care about politics.
The term carries condescension—viewing ordinary people as unsophisticated or easily manipulated.
Manual laborers collectively
- blue-collarManual labor workforce
- factory workersEmployees in manufacturing facilities
- manual laborWork done bodily
- industrial workersEmployees in manufacturing settings
trade union · toilers · hands · workforce · laborers · mill workers · dockers · miners
Inhabitants of a place
- multitudeVery large number
- common peopleNon-elite members of society
- rank and fileOrdinary members collectively
- commonersOrdinary citizens, untitled
plebeians · hoi polloi · rabble · mob · underclass · lower orders · ordinary folk · peasantry
Imaginary terrible society
- Big BrotherTotalitarian surveillance authority
- Nineteen Eighty-FourDystopian totalitarianism novel
- OceaniaPacific island collective
- doublethinkHolding contradictory beliefs simultaneously
thoughtcrime · Ministry of Truth · telescreen · Winston Smith · Julia · rebellion · unperson · orthodoxy
working class
Manual laborers collectively
- blue-collarManual labor workforce
- factory workersEmployees in manufacturing facilities
- manual laborWork done bodily
industrial workers · trade union · toilers · hands · workforce · laborers · mill workers · dockers · miners · sweatshop
populace
Inhabitants of a place
- multitudeVery large number
- common peopleNon-elite members of society
- rank and fileOrdinary members collectively
commoners · plebeians · hoi polloi · rabble · mob · underclass · lower orders · ordinary folk · peasantry · working masses
dystopia
Imaginary terrible society
- Big BrotherTotalitarian surveillance authority
- Nineteen Eighty-FourDystopian totalitarianism novel
- OceaniaPacific island collective
doublethink · thoughtcrime · Ministry of Truth · telescreen · Winston Smith · Julia · rebellion · unperson · orthodoxy · propaganda
- Dystopia1984, Nineteen Eighty-Four, dystopian fiction, totalitarianism, Brave New World
- Orwelliannewspeak, doublethink, Big Brother, thoughtcrime, Ministry of Truth
- Latin Familymater, pater, frater, familia, paterfamilias
prolesaristocracy
Rule by hereditary elite
aristocrats · elites · ruling class · upper class · nobility
- the proletariatWage-earning labor class
- prolific authorWriter of numerous works
- proletarian revolutionWorkers overthrowing the ruling class
- prolific writingCreating works abundantly
- dictatorship of the proletariatLaboring class governing authority
- prolific writerAuthor producing abundant work