Word: proletarianization
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...earth, unpatronizing attitude toward the class he is visiting, the chunks of sociology he offers back up to us higher orders tumble back down upon his head, groundless, as often as they manage to make the grade. Coleman is forever uncertain of the proper distance to keep from his proletarian brothers, usually resolving the conflict between his roles as observer and participant by digging his own hole, struggling awk-wardly off by himself while contenting himself that he is indeed slaving with others. And Coleman's vision is ultimately rather confined and earthly, curiously avoiding the more important issues...
...RAGMAN'S DAUGHTER is one of those English proletarian soap operas, done up this time with a patina of gloss. The script was written by Alan Sillitoe (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) in what could only have been a fit of self-loathing. An unhappy employee in a cheese factory, approaching middle age and dwelling on the glum fringes of the lower middle class, recalls a teen-age romance with the ragman's daughter. She was a lustrous girl who came riding down his street on a horse, smiling in soft focus. With glistening white teeth and flowing...
...necessity of an educated elite, a kind of aristocracy of virtue, to run the affairs of society. Thus, in the eyes of the Communists, he fostered exactly the kind of deep division between ruler and ruled that runs counter to Mao's expressed principle that in a proletarian society the masses rule themselves. Even more offensive to the Communist is the Confucianists' extremely unproletarian disdain for manual labor. "The superior man attends to spiritual things and not to his livelihood," was Confucius' pronouncement...
...rejection of the sage is Confucius' belief: "By nature men are pretty much alike." He was convinced that human nature remained unchanged from tune to tune and society to society, only being affected by education. The Communist goal is to remake man in a new proletarian image...
...merchant seaman at age 13, just before World War I. He is self-educated. Over the years he has written his way through any number of literary fashions. Some early sea stories have been compared to Conrad, though they are far less romantic. Hanley has been called a proletarian writer, too, mainly on the raw strengths of a fictional tetralogy about the hard lives of Irish workers in Liverpool, which began in the 1930s with The Furys...