Word: proletarianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present-day Soviet Russia, young mouths have a lot to say. Recently 24 students of the Timiryazeff Agriculture Academy in Moscow got hot under their proletarian collars, wrote a steaming letter to the Commissariat of Agriculture's official journal, which published the letter last week, under the headline: "Chase Formal Genetics from the Universities!" Charles Darwin was okay, the students said in effect, but Mendel and Morgan were way off the party line, if not downright counterrevolutionary. To capitalist hell with the Mendelian...
Mean temperature of the Congress was well below the boiling point. Rare were such fighting words as: "Writers have no base outside the labor movement." Rare were such old battlecries as "proletarian," "class-consciousness." Delegates hurried nervously through their mainly autobiographical speeches, subsided meekly on the chairman's time-signal, as polite fellow delegates rose politely to comment. From Communists, as such, came not a sheepdog's bark...
...Student Union production had more than merely a welcome reception. It had brilliant melodies, clever lyrics, enough humor, and excellent acting by a sincere cast--the whole combining to make palatable a message of steel unionism and proletarian action. On a stage bare except for a few chairs and a piano, Big Business, the corrupt press, and a hypocritical clergy were treated to tuneful rapping...
...Great Proletarians. Little Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels smeared the front page of Herr Hitler's Völkischer Beobachter with some international rabble-rousing which he might well have cribbed from Joseph Stalin: Germany and Italy are the "great proletarian powers among European nations, robbed of their natural living rights by plutocratic States that have amassed vast riches by plundering and oppressing whole continents." For the Poles he chose these words: "Such silly childish political infants must be taught with a whip on the pants...
...unhumorous account of a pre-War childhood, and their spanking pace, are fresh and alive. But despite a few touching scenes and a few impassioned ones the play weakens as it proceeds. Jerry never becomes more than a familiar symbol. The plot never slides out of the worn proletarian groove. The stagecraft-combining Living Newspaper technique with class-conscious expressionism-would once have seemed striking, today is dated...