From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Tue Jun 11 2002 - 10:28:42 MDT
Spike writes
> Colin Hales wrote:
>
> > Should any extropians be judging these people to be
> > proles? The use of the word is probably a little
> > less kind than need be. J. Public would have done
> > just as well.
>
> The term prole is not pejorative. A prole is anyone
> who works for a living. I am proud to be a hapless
> prole: freedom is good, and proles are free, therefor
> it is good to be a prole.
I guess it got some of its bad nuances from Orwell's 1984.
The proles (Marx's proletariat, of course) were the lower
class deliberately kept in ignorance by the inner party.
But often I still hear myself saying "If there is hope,
it lies in the proles." :-)
Lee
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