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- verb Alternative spelling of
proletarianize .
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But in doing so he may have gone too far in the other direction, for his efforts to proletarianise himself have made him look like a bit of a phoney.
David Cameron reverts to type for the royal wedding | Alexander Chancellor 2011
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For Kiwi capitalism, there was little incentive to fully proletarianise Maori until the boom years that followed World War Two created a major labour shortage. comments thread at Bowalley Road, a reader named Victor accuses Chris Trotter of taking a rose-tinted view of nineteenth century Pakeha state and of the capitalist class that state served:
Reading the Maps 2010
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