Word: proletarianism
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...last decade the situation has changed drastically. Secure in its working class, the PC began to approach non-proletarian sectors of Italian society, modifying the party line to become more amenable to a larger portion of the electorate. After regional elections last June, the PC found itself only two percentage points away from becoming the largest party in the country. Meanwhile the American-supported DC has matched the PC's rise with a spectacular decline of its own. Corrupt, fragmented, and stagnant, the DC is split into nine factions with separate organizations and politics, whose laders have run the party...
...Paris critic's response to Jean François Millet's Man with a Hoe at the Salon of 1863. And how the Second Empire's fear of the collective poor is distilled in the last six words! Proletarian labor, as a subject for art, was the invention of the 19th century; for that, the country-bred Millet was largely responsible. Other paintings of his met similar critical obloquies: The Gleaners, 1857, "have enormous pretensions-they pose like the three fates of pauperdom." The Sower, 1850, was greeted by one conservative as an insult to the dignity...
...serious discussion of romance has to take into account its curiously proletarian status as a form generally disapproved of, in most ages, by the guardians of taste and learning, except when they use it for their purposes...
Members of the league, who adopt a Trotskyite line on the importance of proletarian origins for a revolutionary movement, were continually ignored by the more ardent MPLA supporters. The criticism that those supporters, many of whom are Africans, were responding to was the Maoist criticism, that the MPLA cannot be supported because it is backed by the Soviet Union and will be used as an agent of "social imperialism...
Eternal glory to Comrade Chou Enlai, great proletarian revolutionary of the Chinese people and outstanding Communist fighter...