Word: classless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Khrushchev's final promise was that "the present generation of Soviet people will live under Communism." On that day of the true "classless society," according to Marx, the state is supposed to wither away. Khrushchev makes no such promise. "The party holds," he says, "that the dictatorship of the working class [i.e., party] will cease to be necessary before the state withers away." But "to ensure that the state withers away" completely will require "the final settlement of the contradictions between capitalism and Communism in the world arena in favor of Communism." Shrimps will whistle first, comrades...
Pantaloon Pilgrim. After the revolution, the Jews of Homel had obediently shaved their beards and otherwise tried to behave like loyal members of a godless and classless society. The results were not always happy. One rushed into the synagogue shouting, "Down with that rotten Sabbath! Long live, let us say, Monday!" Some changed their names, but although "it was only a matter of two rubles and the proper enlightenment," Lasik Roitschwantz passed up the opportunity of becoming Spartacus Rosaluxemburgsky. Adopting two saints' names in the hagiography of Marxism* was his last chance to stay out of trouble. Instead...
Army caps and tunics with the epaulets and other badges of rank ripped off have lately become familiar sights around Moscow. For the 250,000 officers due to go, the adjustment is going to be tough; in theoretically classless Russia, the officer caste enjoys high status and perquisites. To induce veterans to settle in the labor-short central Asian "virgin lands," the state is offering free land, low-interest loans, and a bonus of 600 rubles ($60). Last week the first ex-servicemen arrived in the harsh pioneer land of Kazakhstan, where the Communist leader was fired recently after...