Word: classlessness
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...Those Fences Back. What other factors are essential to a state of culture? With a bluntness never shown by the everyday old-Tory apologist, Eliot flatly demands a society that is divided into classes-and stays divided. Like Bernard Shaw, we may argue for a classless society in which aristocrats are replaced by "elites"; a society in which the way up is open to all, but in which we will recognize and pay and properly honor "superior individuals...
...Seek a Protector." Inside the camps in Russia's "classless" society, a strict class system developed. At the bottom were dokhodyagi, "persons who had lost resemblance to the human form ..." Next came the rabotyagi, "who had not yet lost their strength," the urki (criminals), finally the predurki, the camp aristocrats who worked in the administration. Though "sexual intercourse ... is a punishable offense, the conditions of life give a woman no choice but to seek a protector among the camp aristocracy...
...other means to prevent glutted markets, i.e., abundance. It followed that the workers had to seize the state by revolution (they would never get it any other way) and use the state's powers to control The Machine. This would lead to the world's first classless society; its goal: unlimited material prosperity...
...turn has its antithesis, and so on. Marx expressed history by putting class conflicts in the place of thesis and antithesis. The culminating conflict was that called forth by The Machine. The last synthesis, which would be unique because it would not contain its own negation, would be the classless society...
Education in the U.S.S.R., as the text defines it, "is a weapon for strengthening the Soviet State and the building of a classless society. . . . Communist morality presupposes action and makes struggle obligatory. . . . The pupils of the Soviet school must realize that the feeling of Soviet patriotism is saturated with irreconcilable hatred toward the enemies of socialist society...