Word: nonproletarian
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...negotiating teams were as different as they could be. On one side sat Walesa, dressed in baggy coat and sweater, flanked by a coterie of advisers. Among them were a number of thoroughly nonproletarian, politically minded intellectuals who have been advising the strikers. Other leaders of the Interfactory Strike Committee sat on rows of benches behind their negotiators, including the prim and bespectacled Anna Walentynowicz, a militant crane operator whose recent dismissal had helped spark the shipyard strike...
Western movies were not Chiang Ch'ing's only nonproletarian indulgence. Indeed one night she seemed far more bourgeois than revolutionary...
From the start, Ulbricht was a brassy enemy of the intellectuals who had captured control of the party in the early 19205. Ulbricht's pal was a Russian courier who had direct contact with Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin in Moscow. Soon Pravda was sniping at the "nonproletarian enemies of the working class in the German party," and soon Ulbricht's enemies were purged. It was time for a major party overhaul; tough, conscientious Walter Ulbricht got the job. Comrade Ulbricht took on the name Genosse Zelle (Comrade Cell), began atomizing the easygoing Communist cliques into tight little cells...
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