Word: proletarianization
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...extended direct quotation that is among the book’s many illuminating moments, Sandel cautions Friedman: “A flat, frictionless world is a mixed blessing. It may, as you suggest, be good for global business. Or it may, as Marx believed, augur well for a proletarian revolution. But it may also pose a threat to the distinctive places and communities that give us our bearings, that locate us in the world. … Some of these inefficiencies are institutions, habits, cultures, and traditions that people cherish precisely because they reflect nonmarket values like social cohesion, religious...
...hands. Now he was sharing a cup of tea in a young couple's apartment, now vigorously pressing the flesh in a factory, now touring a hospital, a classroom, even a supermarket. In all, Gorbachev spent about eight hours last week on photographed walkabouts through the highly industrialized Proletarsky (Proletarian) district of southeastern Moscow, extolling the virtues of hard work and the rewards of initiative. Past Soviet leaders have made similar rounds, but. Western diplomats noted, few have brought so much vigor to the task...
...DIED. GENERAL SONG RENQIONG, 96, one of the "Eight Immortals" of the Chinese Communist Party, a group of powerful officials who set state policy in the 1980s; in Beijing. Song joined the party as a teenager and rose through the ranks to become a "remarkable proletarian revolutionary," as state news agency Xinhua called him. Following his appointment as a general in the People's Liberation Army in 1955, he served on the party's Central Committee and was admitted to the Beijing politburo in 1982. His death makes Bo Yibo, father of current Commerce Minister Bo Xilai, the last living...
...drafted armies of performers to edify the masses through highly politicized operas and films, such as the epic revolutionary musical The East is Red. She also revived the once outlawed Beijing Dance Academy, filling dance slippers with the feet of peasant children groomed to be stalwarts of a fiercely proletarian Chinese ballet style. Among them was Li, plucked from grade school because, he surmises, he had long toes. Talent scouts dispatched to the villages believed digit size to be an important physical asset for a dancer. "For me, a peasant boy, communism truly was great," Li writes...
...thought proletarian chic stopped with the lumberjack shirts and beat-up sneakers of early 1990s grunge, think again. Trucker hats are the latest item to come out of the blue-collar closet, and though true style mavens latched on to them some months ago, the hats have only just made it onto the mainstream radar. If you're not familiar with the look, think baseball caps but with a higher foam front and a plastic mesh back. Designer logos are a no-no: you'll want a trucker hat that advertises beer, motor oil or construction equipment for that extra...