Word: proletarianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking quietly in the Commons last week for a group of Scottish proletarian M.P. s, Mr. Maxton said: "A very large proportion of the world manages to conduct its affairs reasonably well without maintaining an hereditary monarchy. My group does not propose to cast any votes which tend to perpetuate a monarchist institution...
Diego Rivera was busy at the Federal Capital finishing a paraphrase of his fresco which the Rockefellers ordered out of Manhattan's Radio City (TIME, May 22, 1933, et seq.). Muralist Orozco was tied up with a ''proletarian mural" for Mexico City's Palace of Fine Arts. Painters Pablo O'Higgins and David Alfaro Siqueiros persuaded the Michoacan University trustees to give this great opportunity to two young men one of whom had helped Siqueiros finish a fine fresco in the Workers' Cultural Center in Los Angeles two years before: Reuben Kadish...
...Before the Soviet power can fulfill its function it must be established throughout the world-that is what it was born for!" declared Stalin's Stetsky, "Our country is the shock brigade of the World Proletariat. We will continue to fight as a Proletarian Dictatorship for the World Revolution...
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...