Word: proletarian
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...mode of life tenaciously wedded to the past and resistant to all progress, obstinately refusing any kind of change for the reason that all change was brought about by outsiders." Unlike the rest of Quebec City's picture-postcard prettiness, St. Sauveur is a wretched place: its proletarian "mulots" are ignorant and desperately poor, its bourgeois "soyeux" (silken ones) often bigoted and pretentious...
...Trades Union Congress and the Labor Party took over the paper -but couldn't make ends meet. Capitalists Beaverbrook and Rothermere knew better than the Herald's proletarian-hearted editors what the British workingman wanted to read...
...Lenin picked as first policeman of the proletarian revolution was borrowed from the Polish aristocracy. When Felix Dzerzhinsky was made head of the Bolshevists' CHEKA, he wrote to his wife: "I am now in the front line and I want to be merciless, to tear the enemy to pieces as a watchdog would...
...children of pity accepted Marx's indictment of capitalism's evils, but they did not want to substitute the greater evil of his proletarian dictatorship. They were the backbone (if backbone it had) of Social Democracy. They were perhaps best epitomized by Sidney Webb, later Lord Passfield. He and his wife Beatrice loved the bicycle, and untiringly cycled about the business of their Fabian Society; once they pedaled 40 miles to Cardiff to attend a trade union congress. They believed not in the inevitability of revolution but in the "inevitability of gradualness," i.e., in a steady bicycle ride...
...power monopolists). In 1917, in the assembly hall of a swank girls' school in Petrograd, behind unwashed windows that excluded the sky, Lenin stood up. His ill-fitting, overlong trousers flapped about his feet. Gripping the rostrum, he said quietly: "We shall now proceed to construct the proletarian socialist order in Russia...