Word: proletarianism
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...public trial of Tomsky in the familiar Moscow style would have split proletarian opinion irretrievably, and his suicide smoothed the ground upon which was negotiated in six days last week the affiliation with Iftu of the Soviet Trade Unions...
...years ago Soviet propaganda drilled into Russian workers that Iftu and its leaders were proletarian poltroons, stooges of Capitalism. Such Iftu affiliates as the American Federation of Labor and the British Trades Union Congress replied by publicly abhorring Russian trade unionism as "Red" and its leaders as stooges of Stalin. The pact signed in Moscow last week ended this quarrel and made the International Federation of Trade Unions an organization of 23,000,000 Soviet affiliates and 17,000,000 other affiliates-with all that that implies. Big Leon Jouhaux seemed slated to return to Paris with increased kudos...
...services of a justice of the peace, an office which Chicago discontinued in 1905, it puzzled the county clerk's assistants until reporters crossed the street to find behind the window, complacently waiting for business, David R. Mandell, this year elected justice of the peace in the proletarian Cook County suburb of Berwyn. A lawyer by profession, plump, 35-year-old Justice of the Peace Mandell announced that he had married only 41 couples in Berwyn in six months, saw no obstacle to making use of his administrative (but not judicial) authority elsewhere in the county. A look...
Though most people think they feel sympathy for human wretchedness, it is a remarkable fact that present-day proletarian paintings are in general formalized, strained and snide. Painters like the late George Luks and George Bellows could make an old applewoman look pathetic; young painters nowadays are more likely to make her look depraved. Somewhere between pathos and depravity lies the truth which would arouse fear and pity. For various reasons-preoccupation with design, premature austerity, honorable anger or plain bad draughtsmanship-few modern artists touch that particular truth...
...proletarian dictatorship...