Word: classlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rubbish!" cried a voice from the audience. Gaitskell persisted: Nationalism is "only one means" to achieve a modern Labor Party's true end-building a classless society based on economic and social justice. "No, no," shouted some delegates. But Gaitskell urged that it was time to revise the party's 40-year-old constitutional pledge of "common ownership of the means of production," and work out "fundamental principles of British democratic socialism as we see them today-in 1959 and not 1918." Winding up a speech that won only an occasional scattered handclap, Gaitskell said: "I would rather...
...cite these statistics to boast of material wealth, said Nixon. "But what these statistics do dramatically demonstrate is this: that the United States, the world's largest capitalist country, has from the standpoint of distribution of wealth come closest to the ideal of prosperity for all in a classless society...
...full import of Fidel Castro's dream of a "classless" Cuba began sinking in last week, a wave of mass meetings and angry proclamations swept the island. The immediate cause of the anger was Castro's first spread-the-wealth scheme: his land-reform bill (TIME, June 1) that became law last week. The result was the return of political debate after a hiatus of five months, and the sudden birth of outspoken opposition to the still numerically strong supporters of Castro...
Clad in a flowing sports shirt as sign of his membership in a classless revolution, Lopez Fresquet turned up at his office and ended the joke. "I'm dead serious about this tax," he said. The law will discourage "conspicuous consumption" and besides, might net $5,000,000 a year. Cuban society editors, who have always collected an under-the-table fee for social puffs, will lose a profitable racket...
...tung nevertheless leaned over the proceedings. Perhaps Red China's Mao knew that his ideas would not prevail. Breaking the long official Soviet silence on Red China's "big leap" to create communes throughout the countryside in 1958, Khrushchev declared that Communism-the ultimate, classless form of human society described by Marx, Engels and Lenin ("To each according to his need")-cannot be achieved without first building socialism ("To each according to his work...