Word: proletarianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Animal Farm, the best anti-Communist satire yet written, and that nightmare about Big Brother, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Keep the Aspidistra Flying-which appeared in England in 1936 but has never before been published in the U.S., is a sharply satirical attack on the left-wing intellectuals and fake-proletarian martyrs of the '305. Thus, in a sense, it is about yesterday's battle; yet it is also more timely than ever, for only lately has the world begun to understand that it is the little comrades who pave the way for Big Brother...
...another aide stayed behind to talk economic deals. Bedizened with flower garlands, they sloshed through fruit-juice and colored-water toasts; they kissed babies, rode gingerly atop lumbering elephants, released white doves, clowned in beaded hats and white Gandhi caps, allowed vermilion paste to be smeared across their proletarian foreheads, sat glumly with Nehru while they were made honorary Boy Scouts. They politely disregarded Neutralist Nehru's insistence that India is with neither bloc in the cold war; repeatedly the Russians described India as their "ally," and often they talked less like salesmen than like benign senior partners down...
...enmeshed in ideological confusion. Basic to Communist theory, even if it is hard for workers to understand, is the notion of "progressive pauperization." Under this theory, any substantial gain the workers get must be resisted as evil, because it makes them satisfied with their lot and puts off the proletarian revolution. At the CGT convention last June, this issue was thrashed out, and CGT Secretary General Benoit Frachon, a card-carrying Communist, spoke frankly of the need to "destroy the dreams and delusions of those who try to present the capitalist regime in its present state as a source...
...customary proletarian mufti, Red China's pudgy Chairman Mao Tse-tung, looking like a reasonably good insurance risk at his age (68), emerged from Peking to make an inspection tour along the Yellow River, where the Communists say they are undertaking monumental flood-control projects...
...Born proletarian down Georgia...