Word: proletarianization
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Strikes in Poland [Sept. 15] have exposed a paradox of modern history: no external force could shake the closed citadel of a Communist regime except the very workers who were regarded as the vanguard of the proletarian revolution...
...system runs by what the Soviets call blat- influence, clout, corruption. A new minority rule sets in. If it is not the dark, satanic will of Stalin, it has little to do with workers' wishes either. Although members of the ruling elite may have come originally from proletarian families, that connection becomes more remote as the entrenchment proceeds. Amid scarcities of everything (meat, soap, housing, humor, intelligence), the new class buys its provisions with discreet complacency at its own quietly exclusive stores. The mass of work ers stand in their interminable lines or else buy on the flourishing black...
Even as Mao continued to receive the respectful homage of the masses, however, his once towering image as the infallible leader of the great proletarian revolution was being systematically downgraded. To begin with, some of his formerly ubiquitous likenesses were being removed from public view. Four large portraits of Mao have vanished from the Great Hall of the People, where the Communist Party is preparing to hold the National People's Congress. At the same time, workmen are preparing to strip one more huge picture of the late Chairman from the façade of another landmark, the Museum...
...comradely" meeting. China, which under Mao Tse-tung had long condemned Tito's "revisionism," similarly acted almost as though it had never differed with him. The first major head of government to arrive in Belgrade was Chairman Hua Guofeng, who grandly praised Tito for "great contributions to the proletarian revolution." At the gravesite, Hua and Brezhnev glanced fleetingly at each other, but never spoke...
...official communique issued after a week of deliberations, the 201-member committee declared that the labels of "renegade, traitor and scab," attached to Liu by a 1968 Central Committee resolution, were now invalid. Liu, who reportedly died in disgrace in 1969, would henceforth be regarded as "a great Marxist, proletarian revolutionary and one of the principal leaders of the party and state...