Word: proletarian
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However lustily it is beaten back with proletarian hammer & sickle, bourgeois human nature will out. Recently, in an eloquent letter to the editor of Moscow's folksy evening daily, Vechernyaya? Moskva, crusading Lieut. Colonel V. Kotko self-righteously attacked one aspect of this un-Marxian state of affairs-tipping...
...great effort now was on proletarian fiction, published in the Communists' intellectual organ, the New Masses. His stories, full of romanticism and melodrama, were a summons to violence. Moscow was enraptured, cited him as "the first writer to introduce the Bolshevik into American writing...
...middle class, living on fixed or nearly fixed incomes, is ground between the millstones. As a class, its members are tempted toward extinction by two routes: 1) stepping down to an easier way of life on the proletarian level; 2) maintaining their own standards as individuals by not permitting themselves the costly luxury of having children...
...from Cominform Boss Andrei Zhdanov to Thorez. The Cominform message rebuked Thorez secretly for the same view of nationalism which had drawn the public thunderbolt of Cominform anathema to Tito's head. Zhdanov said that Thorez had not stuck close enough "to the basic and permanent principles of proletarian internationalism." As was clear from the rest of the letter, this Communist gobbledygook meant that Thorez was deemed guilty of substituting a modicum of French nationalism for 100% subservience to Russian nationalism, as interpreted by the Kremlin bosses...
...returned to the U.S., lived the life of a well-publicized fugitive, skipping from town to town. He wrote an autobiography, Proletarian Journey. In 1938, he was arrested at a brother's home in Lawrence, and sent back to prison in North Carolina. After four years, he was paroled...