Word: proletarianism
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Frustrated Martyr. The renewed activism, coming in the wake of student protests in Paris and suburban schools as well as a series of bombings and fires, was too much for the government. At a Cabinet meeting, Interior Minister Raymond Marcellin urged that the 2,000 member Proletarian Left Movement be suppressed for plotting to "destroy and overthrow the constitutional regime and to incite citizens to arms against the authority of the state." The government quickly complied. The following day the two editors of the Proletarian Left's newspaper were convicted and sentenced to prison, one for eight months...
When Mao Tse-tung loosed the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution on his land in May 1966, China all but ceased to practice an active foreign policy. So complete was Peking's withdrawal from the international arena as it struggled to cope with its domestic convulsions that all but one of its 42 ambassadors were called home. To this day, only 21 have been replaced...
Will American radicals be inspired by this example? However earnest their ideological point, the French Robin Hoodlums executed a happening of at least some wit, an anarchistic tribute to gaiety and appetite. In some ways, the expedition savored of Yippie humor, but American radicals, with their self-consciously proletarian styles, seem unlikely to add it to their arsenal of assault. Picture Abbie Hoffman doling out TV dinners and Fresca in Harlem...
...country. Edo had barely been married a year, and his wife had just given birth to their first child when he joined the liberation army. "I was a sentimentalist, and I loved my country. So I left my wife and child and became a foot soldier in the 18th Proletarian Brigade," Edo said...
...taking place. . . . There are no frontiers in this life-or-death battle. We cannot remain indifferent to what is happening in the world; a victory in any country over imperialism is also our victory, and the defeat of any nation is a defeat for all. The practice of proletarian internationalism is not only the duty of the people who are struggling for a better future; it is also a sheer necessity...