Word: proletarian
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Another effect: the proletarian who used to work 48 hours now earns one sixth less weekly pay, has one-sixth more leisure, knows he has given eight hours work to a fellow proletarian formerly unemployed...
...Union Congress of Soviets (see above). Since in Russia it takes uncommon courage to get up in meeting and oppose the Communist Party, Comrade Lenin considered his system almost perfect. To make it utterly perfect he wrote into the Soviet Constitution that the vote of one presumably radical "proletarian" or factory worker shall equal the votes of five presumably reactionary Russian peasants, thus assuring the so-called "Dictatorship of the Proletariat." It was time, Dictator Stalin felt last week, to change the Constitution...
...your own inimitable way of li satirical "newswriting," are horrified by execution of your own class-brothers-the Wh Guardists-rats that got what they deserve, justice, proletarian justice. Of course, couldn't be expected to understand; your begeois ''culture" makes you a champion of " democracy" with its courts, "free," "open" ; jury trials with its McXamaras, Mooneys, Sac and Vanzettis and its Scottsboros (chosen "bitrarily") in comparison to its Insulls. T is your justice...
...Will you be so kind to explain to one marooned in the illiterate gumbo of Virginia, just why you-all are excited over a few justified executions for the protection of the Proletarian State? If one has been found out to be an enemy of society, of advancing society if you please, is there any logical argument why this enemy should not be removed with as little ceremony as possible? I find you offering no objections to the fact that in America the ruling class has been in the habit of executing thousands by the simple manner of keeping them...
...Spaniards there is something decidedly special about an English Lord. Spanish beggars are apt to address any tourist as "My Lord"; if that fails, as "My God"; and finally, if they get no coppers, as "Rosbiff Goddam!" Last week shaggy old Premier Alejandro Lerroux, who put down the proletarian revolt by having over 3,000 rebels shot, felt that the least he could do was to receive Lord Listowel & Commission in his private rooms at the Cortes. Spanish blood was up, Spanish honor at stake. Same afternoon, in the Cortes, Spain's No. 1 Catholic politician, Fascist...