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...meanings in each half of the divided country. The standard West German phrases for worker and employer - Arbeiter and Arbeitgeber - are never used in East Germany. There, all workers are now called Werktdtige - work-active persons. The East Germans have also dropped the use of the term Pro- letariat, because intellectuals and white-collar workers felt left out. Rationelle Arbeit, which means rational work in West Germany, has become East Germany's pet euphemism for work per formed in accord with party goals. In the West German dictionary, aufrusten means t6 rearm. The East German dictionary warns that when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Germany: Semantics of Separatism | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

...entire Government by democratic means. "When they say they are against the present bogus democracy of the present system and are for a workers' democracy, it is again a cowardly compromise with Bolshevism, for they would rather have used the phrase 'dictatorship of the pro letariat' if they had dared." Weakest faction was the Left's Centre, led by Mayor Daniel Webster Hoan of Milwaukee, whose chief desire was for peace-in-the-party. No aid to peace was the presence at Cleveland of Earl Browder, head of the U. S. Communist party, who appeared with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Left Divided | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

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