Word: proletarianized
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...votes, a 1.6% increase, giving them eleven extra seats in the Chamber. Thus the party maintained its postwar record of steady gains-and moved closer to its goal of a leftist majority in Italian politics. Other Nenni Socialists went over to their former ally, the pro-Communist Proletarian Socialists (P.S.I.U.P.). This far-left party gained 4.5% of the votes and 23 seats...
...years ago this week, Mao launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and the first wall poster, dripping with vitriol, blossomed on the east wall of Peking University's dining hall. Fearful that China was losing the purity of its first revolution and sliding down "the capitalist road" taken by "bourgeois" Russia, Mao set out to purge his vast nation of 750 million people. His weapons were the People's Liberation Army and the youth of the Red Guards, whom he mobilized by closing down the schools. His targets were the party and governmental structures of China, the handiwork...
...film develops, the workers succumb not through ideological but moral weakness: slogans aside, they hold bourgeois values. At the outset Carlos, cigarette dangling from his proletarian lip, tells his working class lover, "Someday I'll make it big...I want the cake, not just the crumbs." Twenty minutes later we see them both bedfellows of their bourgeois employers...
...staff had been second only to Lin Piao in the military hierarchy; General Yu Li-chin, the political commissar of China's air force; and General Fu Chung-pi, commander of the army's vital Peking garrison. All three had taken an active part in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution that has been tearing China apart, and all three were appointed to their jobs by Lin Piao...
...people who charge exorbitant rents for private houses and those who haul in the tips of the big spenders. Simply by meeting Moscow's quota and more, Lipyan pleases his masters and has enough left over to make him that theoretically impossible anachronism: a happy capitalist in a proletarian society...