Word: proletarianized
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...good comrade, but not very comradely," a Communist official once said of Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer. Reserved and quiet, Berlinguer speaks in a dry, precise manner yet still manages to exude a certain magnetism. He is an anomaly in other ways. Though he leads the largest proletarian party in the West, his fragile hands have rarely been callused by any implement rougher than a sailboat's tiller. The descendant of an aristocratic, landowning Sardinian family, he is married to a practicing Roman Catholic but is an atheist himself...
...people's lives are radically molded by the places in which they work for others--according to one government study released last month, one out of four workers in small American businesses, those that employ 125 workers or fewer, suffers from an occupation-related disease--but where even the "proletarian literature" of the 1930s dealt more often with people from the lower middle class...
...shabby working-class hausfrau; in her place stands an elegant fashion plate who abandons her peasant taciturnity for sparkling wit and high spirits, reads Anna Karenina and 1 Prontessi Spossi, swoons to romantic violin concerti and discovers that she has no desire ever to return to her coarse proletarian family...
...passionate, but unconsummated for the spell is abruptly broken by Clara's cure, which inexorably returns her to obligations at home. As the train hurtling southward nears Milan, the skies darken with thunderclouds, gracelessly symbolizing the descent from ethereal realms of sweetness and light into the quotidian agonies of proletarian life...
Malcolm was killed, and the American proletarian black community temporarily deprived of leadership, but not before he had planted the seeds of Third World internationalism in the fertile soil of the developing Black nationalist movement. In the long run, conditions, not leaders, generate resistance and rebellion; leaders only help the process along. Since 1965, we have seen increasing black self-pride, and cultural dignity, increasing identification by American blacks with the struggle in Africa and the rest of the Third World, and increasing solidarity between Third World peoples in general. The victims of international capitalist plunder are coming together...