Question

What is the best meaning of “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains”?

Workers should take care not to lose their personal property.
Workers are so oppressed that they should revolt.
A failed revolt will land the revolutionaries in prison, in chains.
It is unjust to hold communist revolutionaries in chains.

Answer 1

The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. ... The words are a stirring rallying cry for working men and women to join in revolt against a social order that keeps them in chains, and then collectively build a better, freer world.

Answer 2

Workers are so oppressed that they should revolt.

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