Word: proletarianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe might not be so apparent to Washington as they were to London and Moscow; 2) Russia's slice of occupied Germany would consist chiefly of the Junker and a large docile peasant population-manpower for rebuilding Russia's destroyed cities. Britain would receive the restless proletarian population of the ports and the industrial Ruhr and Rhine...
What Price Unity? In proletarian Paris the people dine on soup, macaroni, maybe a little bread and sour wine. But among Communist leaders there is confidence in approaching victory. The Communist Party is the only party which is well organized, and has a program. It is growing...
...democratic institutions." For him "America was liberty." Later, in the I.L.G.W.U. 's long civil war of right wing v. left wing, Schlesinger fell a political victim to the Communists, died a "broken man." Morris Sigman, Schlesinger's successor as president of the I.L.G.W.U. Sigman was "a real proletarian, a type rare among labor leaders." He "fought Communist disruption on the left and at the same time undertook to clean up some of the political machines on his own side of the fence. . . . This relentless honesty was one of his great drawbacks as a leader. . . ." David Dubinsky, now president...
...happy hunting ground for reformers and revolutionaries. Among the hunters: George Bernard Shaw, Karl Marx's daughter Eleanor ("Tussy") Marx Aveling, Russian Anarchist Prince Peter Kropotkin, Socialist Poet and Craftsman William Morris-all of whom appear in Author Cameron's novel. The hero is a young proletarian named Arthur Cullen. When young Cullen heard that William Morris planned to mitigate the horrors of industrial progress by reviving medieval handicrafts, he became the great man's ardent disciple...
...American research institution asked a large number of people all over the United States: 'To what social class do you think you belong?' Most organized wage earners replied that in their opinion they belong to the middle class. . . .How can the American Communists make a proletarian revolution among workers who do not even know they are proletarians...