Word: proletarianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Worst of all, a good many Frenchmen who had vaguely heard of "The Man in the White Tie" understood that during the War he was a slacker and afterwards a Communist. In 1914, being already Mayor of the proletarian Paris suburb of Aubervilliers. he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies by his old constituents as a Socialist. He did not enlist in the Army. When drafted he served briefly at the front as a common poilu. His Socialist views caused him to orate directly after the War against the Treaty of Versailles. In 1919 he lost his seat...
...Stalin did not guarantee safety for exiled "bourgeois intellectuals" who may now dare to return to Russia, he hinted it. But resoundingly he declared that Russia, with Communism still her goal, must produce as fast as possible "proletarian intellectuals ... a new working class intelligentsia...
...Alexandra not been a proletarian in good standing, had she wrecked the car as an act of sabotage to hinder the success of the Five Year Plan, she would either have been shot or exiled to a Siberian lumber camp. Because she was a true proletarian, had killed one and injured six only in a girlish madcap mood, she got off with 18 months in jail. She did not get off without a scolding. Editorialized a Moscow newspaper...
...week, though his factory will only hold 50. Half the men work Monday through Wednesday, draw their dole the rest of the week. Meanwhile the other half have drawn their dole for three days, work Thursday through Saturday. So well does this half-loaf, half-work system please the proletarian that when he does work he is willing to accept a slightly lower daily wage than if forced to work regularly, and this pleases the manufacturer. There are also cases of deliberate collusion: a man works on the sly and wages are "slipped" to him, but he draws the dole...
...British Labor M. P.?such as famed Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson?who visits the U. S., recoils in horror at the sight of unemployed apple-sellers, denounces the heartless degradation and the public shame, thanks God that the British proletarian can hold up his head and proudly take his "benefits," instead of cringing and smirking like a beggar at some sour-faced old lady who may buy an apple or two tangerines...