Word: proletarianism
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...industrial economy, creating a retarded form of industrial feudalism. It is that system that Gorbachev's perestroika and Deng Xiaoping's "Four Modernizations" seek to reform. But in China factory workers have shunned colleagues who earned incentive bonuses, or gone on strike to prevent introduction of such bonuses. Their proletarian comrades in the Soviet Union have reportedly downed tools for higher pay, while others burned a prosperous collective that raised pigs because it was too successful. In Poland the economic program of Solidarity runs directly counter to any efforts at reform. It demands higher wages, stable prices and job security...
...schoolteachers, Brigada S (or the S Brigade, christened by lead singer Igor Sukachev because he liked the letter S) has become one of the most popular of the new generation of rock bands. Although the four-year-old group has yet to produce an album, the self-described "Proletarian Jazz Orchestra" enjoys a tremendous following. Teens from Tallinn to Vladivostok spray-paint the band's name, with the Russian equivalent of S drawn like a Communist hammer and sickle, on walls of public buildings...
Dislocating cultural rebellions are not unusual, especially when population curves bulge and mature. The difference in 1968 was that the whole world seemed to be in the midst of a great proletarian revolution, determined to establish an alternative elite complete with attendant counterculture. The Beatle George Harrison voiced his side of the civil war in February 1968. "It doesn't really matter about the older people now because they're finished anyway," he said. "There's still going to be years of having all these old fools who are governing us and who are bombing us and doin' all that...
...Soviets are not about to recognize the success of any American doctrine, they do admit, at least tacitly, the failure of any number of doctrines from their own Communist past: Karl Marx's world revolution, Vladimir Lenin's "proletarian internationalism," Nikita Khrushchev's sponsorship of "wars of national liberation" and Leonid Brezhnev's assertion of the right to use force to protect the "gains" of socialism. In an interview with TIME, Anatoli Gromyko, director of Moscow's Institute of African Studies admits, "We should not export revolution. The idea that a socialist revolution would spread around the world...
...about this: long-haired hippie from working-class family in ancient Palestine (salt of the earth dad, saintly mom) falls in with tough crowd of longshoremen, starts proletarian pacifist movement and gets offed by protofascist pigs from Rome...