Word: proletarianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Proletarian Whack. From Moscow, via London, came a venomously polite inquiry: two Spanish soldiers had been captured on the Russian front - long after Madrid announced withdrawal of its notorious Blue Division; what should the Kremlin do? Regard the two Spaniards as prisoners of war, despite their Government's announcement? Or treat them as irregulars, liable to summary execution...
Ezequiel Padilla, Mexico's Foreign Minister, as host, was elected president of the conference. Tall, handsome Dr. Padilla, a philosophical proletarian, introduced some horse sense into the somewhat remote discussions of little nations v. the big powers...
Nelson Rockefeller, Mr. Stettinius' No. 1 assistant on Latin American affairs, showed his growing know-how, his flair for Latin amenities. At one session Delegate Rockefeller even chatted happily with Mexican Artist Diego Rivera, whose proletarian murals were torn out of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center by Nelson's father twelve years ago. Artist Rivera, now planning a mural based on the conference, spent several hours sketching Ed Stettinius...
...What makes Stalin great," said the Tsar, "is that he understands how to adapt revolutionary tactics to the whirling spirals of history as it emerges onto new planes. He has discarded the classical type of proletarian revolution. Nevertheless, he is carrying through basic social revolutions in Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Poland. Furthermore, we Marxists believe that in the years of peace Britain and the U.S. will fall apart, due, as we Marxists say, to the inability of capitalism to solve its basic contradiction-that is, its inability to provide continuous work for the masses so that they...
...definition of democracy in Leninism: ". . . The dictatorship of the proletariat is the domination of the proletariat over the bourgeoisie, untrammeled by law, based on violence, and enjoying the sympathy and support of the toiling . . . masses. . . . Democracy under the capitalist system is . . . the democracy of an exploiting minority. . . . Democracy under proletarian dictatorship is . . . a democracy of the exploited majority...