Word: proletarianism
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...headlines. Even the Communists were perplexed. Example: after years of obediently denouncing NATO as "aggressive . . . warmongering . . . imperialist," editorialists for East German newspapers stumbled all over themselves trying to explain why the Kremlin was suddenly applying for NATO membership and inviting the American imperialists into the peace-loving proletarian camp...
...summer night in 1928, first nighters crowded into a Berlin theater to see Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), composed by a young highbrow named Kurt Weill on a text by a proletarian poet named Bert Brecht. Nobody thought it would last more than a few performances. How could an eight-piece orchestra and a tatterdemalion cast compete with the great music dramas of Wagner and the moderns? But two years later, Threepenny Opera was still running, and since then it has had thousands of performances, including a handful in the U.S. Last week it was revived in Manhattan...
...freedom must be understood. The best definition was given by Cicero: "Freedom is participation in power." Only in democracy can we have direct and indirect participation in power. But power presupposes property−and property means initiative, responsibility and risk. This is a law of history. Therefore, the proletarian will have no power as long as he remains a proletarian...
...Luigi was carted off to a Mussolini jail, Teresa uncomplainingly took over his party chores. She fled with him to France and to Russia, fought by his side in the Spanish Civil War. In underground papers she edited, Teresa laid down the party line, and she also wrote three proletarian novels. No one ever questioned her ardor or orthodoxy. Presumably no more congenial pair existed in all the party. Luigi sometimes dallied with younger and comelier Communists (for Teresa was never pretty), but he always went back to his wife, leaving his girl friends to nurse their broken hearts...
...November, having set the stage, Sergeev prepared his biggest coup: he invited ten eminently respectable, topnotch Greek editors, politicians and educators (plus one fellow-traveling newsman) to visit Soviet Russia and see the proletarian heaven for themselves. Last week they were back after 25 days, and twelve of Athens' 14 newspapers were carrying their combined story, "What We Saw in the Soviet Union...