Word: proletarianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with stoicism last week the revelation that in their Soviet midst a total of 1,667 Capitalist landlords have survived to harass the proletariat with extortionate rents. According to the Government Press, which professed itself scandalized, one Moscow landlady is now suing before a Red court to compel a proletarian family to pay her a bonus of 5,000 rubles for the privilege of not being evicted. When the suit appeared to be dragging on. Moscow's meanest landlady got herself a cartwhip, cracked it ominously in the presence of her lodgers and screamed: "Comrade, unless...
Attended by 200 secretaries, 400 Communist Party delegates from 50 countries arrived importantly in Moscow last week for the first Congress of the Comintern in seven long years. Its constitution defines the Comintern as "a union of Communist parties of all countries into one proletarian party, which fights for the establishment of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, for the creation of a World Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, for the complete destruction of classes and the achievement of Socialism-that first stage of the Communist society." Since many of the 400 delegates are furtive persons, wanted by the police...
...Soviet State has drifted from its proletarian moorings further appeared last week when Premier Vyacheslav Molotov was quoted as defending the present employment of most Russians on a piecework basis: "The chief aim of Socialism is to raise the productivity of labor...
...peasants too have begun to disapprove of Japan's policy with respect to China," continued Proletarian Kato. "At first the Japanese peasantry were under the influence of Japanese nationalistic propaganda. However, as a result of the acute agrarian crisis of 1931-32 and the ensuing famine in the northeastern parts of Japan, the peasants have recently grown more rebellious and the number of farmer uprisings has been increasing...
...such "agitprop" pieces as Comrade, Mr. Morgan's Nightmare, Who's Who in the Berlin Zoo were supplied to workers' theatres up & down the land. Acceptable and exciting as they may have been to Marxist audiences, the general theatre public did not get very excited about proletarian drama until Clifford Odets wrote Waiting for Lefty...