Word: proletarianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter Lippmann '10, concluded his series of Godkin lectures with an eulogy of the middle class and an attack on the alliance of plutocrats and proletarian groups which menace the operation of democracy, at the New Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon...
...Lippmann's solution for the difficulties which Democratic, governments encounter from special interests and "pressure groups" was to lift the proletarian classes to a point where they would be independent and where their "right to work" would be secure. He referred to Aristotle's belief in the reliability of those of the population in the "middle condition" and quoted from "The New Party Politics" by Professor Arthur N. Holcombe '06. He demanded that the state guarantee the right to work. This problem is not insoluble, he said, as the possibilities of useful public works are "really inexhaustible...
...young left-wing novelists, grumble that these youths have sold their birthright of dreams for a mess of revolutionary economics. Left-wing critics retort that while the nightmare of the capitalist system persists, no young writer worth his salt can close his eyes to it. Many a "proletarian novel" is rightly thrown out of the literary court as mere advertising for the Communist cause; but the literary sergeants-at-arms will think twice before they begin hustling Robert Cantwell's Land of Plenty. Though diehard right-wingers will call it propaganda, most readers will find it troubling, critics...
Followers of Major Clifford Hugh Douglas' economic theories will be pleased at Author Converse's sympathetic reference to Social Credit. And even those whom James Joyce calls "gracekopers" might find food for meditation in this proletarian grace...
Fear is the name of a four-act play by A. N. Afinogenow which, for the last two years, has been the outstanding theatrical attraction of Soviet Russia. Unlike most recent Russian literary works, Fear, though written by a proletarian, is not Soviet propaganda. It aims to show the miseries of the proletariat under Soviet rule, to make a case for the survivors of the Tsarist aristocracy. Its hero, Ivan Ilich Borodin, scientific director of the Institute of Physiological Stimuli, is patently patterned after Physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1904. At first Fear...