Word: proletarian
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...prize-a 150-lb. calf-went to a Bologna leftist named Armando Baldinelli. His oil of peasants parading with pitchforks was straightforward enough, but it was also as pedestrian as it was proletarian. Other artists carted off such prizes as an irrigation pump, a pony, fertilizer, tomato paste, sausages, and of course cheeses...
...This] is a fact of considerable importance. For not only Trotskyists and some Socialists disdainfully treat Stalin as a traitor to the true Marxian-Leninist world-proletarian revolution and as a common nationalistic dictator-another Hitler. Many of the most powerful Western statesmen and military leaders accept this escapist myth...
...anecdote that non-Marxists could understand. Wrote Stalin: "We had for some time Marxists who asserted that the railways which remained in our country after the October Revolution were bourgeois railways . . . not worthy of us Marxists; that these railways should be torn up and new ones built-proletarian railways. This earned for the critics the name of Troglodytes. Such a primitive, anarchic view of society [as of] language. . . has nothing to do with Marxism . . . but undoubtedly exists in the minds of some of our muddled comrades...
...Adventist who lives with her mother in a tarpaper shack in the California desert. One day in the 19205 a plush black limousine breaks down slap outside the Andrews home, and its owner, an idle-rich sponsor of radical causes named Margaret Harries, stops off long enough to whisk proletarian Pamela off to the vast Harries home as parlormaid. Here, Pam promptly runs into the path of Mrs. Harries' pampered, drunken, lecherous nephew, Charles. Like her 18th Century predecessor, she needs most of the rest of the book to convince him that her pure ears are deaf...
...spit on Russia," Kerensky quoted Lenin as having said. The Communist aim is to "build the base of an international proletarian revolution," and in so doing, "we must sacrifice all national interest," the quote concluded...