Word: classlessness
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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...
...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...