Word: proletarianism
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...wielded more personal power than any other man in Europe except Joseph Stalin, and, with the same exception, he was perhaps the world's most successful proletarian statesman. He ruled a country which, by virtue of its position on ancient highroads of empire, was a key territory in the strategy of present peace or future war. His army had caused the first major shooting incident, the first ultimatum and the first wild rumors of imminent war of the world's uneasy armistice...
...switched from Mihailovich to Tito. After a brief period of misty enthusiasm-he was presented as charming, kindly, courageous, only incidentally Communist and a self-made marshal-the fog of mystery lifted for good. Marshal Tito emerged as one of the Kremlin's most faithful, fanatical, and efficient proletarian proconsuls...
That policy falls into three parts: 1) close friendship with the U.S., 2) opposition to Russian expansion, 3) gradual liquidation of the British Empire. Tories and Laborites alike can cooperate with the U.S. But Bevin, the proletarian, can speak up to Russia as Churchill, the aristocrat, could not. When "Ole Ernie" warns of the Soviet danger British workers listen. If the Tories said the same words, British workers would consider them more "imperialist bilge...
After that outburst, he retired to a farm, spent four years pounding out proletarian novels and three plays. In 1910, his father's death sent him back to the Tribune, by family command, to settle down as an unwilling partner of austere Bertie McCormick...
...from a sociological and economic standpoint is the fact that . . . smaller lotteries . . . are patronized largely by the proletariat, whereas the patrons of the [bigger] . . . lottery loans are drawn chiefly from the middle class." Unless the Encyclopedia erred, which was indeed conceivable. Soviet Russia last week definitely moved from the proletarian to the bourgeois way of life...