Word: proletarianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: In your vivid summary of H. R. Knickerbocker's remarks on the U. S. S. R., you refer to the relaxations enjoyed by tired Proletarian Dictators on the tropical beaches of the Crimea as "nude mixed bathing" (TIME, Dec. 22) This is perhaps partially true. But it would be a mistake to lead the sensitive readers of TIME into believing that a Soviet bathing beach is sort of glorified American bathing beach (with couples all jumbled up together) minus those essential superficialities, such as bathing suits, on which our great civilization is founded. The most popular bathing beaches...
...proletarian state does not desire revenge upon beaten and disarmed enemies, mere tools of French imperialism who have rendered important service by disclosing completely all the ramifications of this vast conspiracy...
Theory: The despised "private trader" who bought cheap at the market and sold dear to his proletarian customers would be squeezed out of this detestable "unproductive" occupation, forced to do honest "work" or starve...
Result: Private traders still seem to be able to get fresh vegetables and meats somehow, and breakdown of the Co-operative food distribution system has forced more and more proletarians to "buy private." Naturally the private traders have raised their prices, "thieves and robbers that they are," as any proletarian will tell...
Political Stride. Elderly, harassed Michael Ivanovich Kalinin is the puppet-President of Russia, a peasant-born figurehead (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928). Some 150,000,000 peasants hope that he defends their interests in proletarian councils of the Kremlin. He tries to. But last week he was obliged to pledge his support to a policy most peasants hate, the project to exterminate the kulak or "moneyed peasant" as a class (TIME, Jan. 13). Just now this is the thing closest to the heart of cold, quiet Dictator Josef Stalin, the arch-proletarian who is also making Russia stride...