Word: proletarians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally the 40 man-eating wolves especially captured in Siberia, will battle to the death with 40 savage imperial borzois. . . . Educational, and instructive. . . . The first proletarian spectacle of its kind since Roman times. . . . Next day the Soviet news organ Isvestia sternly announced that no such "spectacle" would be permitted, quoted from the law forbidding prizefights in Russia "because the sport is not conducive to the invigoration of the working masses, but tends to arouse their baser emotions...
...good will if not the admiration of the non-laboring class. The party leadership of Mr. Macdonald is unshaken, perhaps strengthened; but the trade union leaders are tarnished heroes. One hundred percent Communists, like A. J. Cook, were frankly turning last week toward the creation of a new British proletarian movement...
...Eisenstein, striving religiously to make his film the drama of a group, almost permits one character to emerge as hero. Such an effect would have ruined the general scheme, yet so keenly does the need for individual enterprise make itself felt, in even a glorified crowd, that the proletarian artist must give it at least grudging recognition...
...other worker the Teuton is cooperative. As early as the mid-13th century the towns of Hamburg and Lübeck inaugurated enlightened co-operation which led to the famed Hanseatic League; and late in the 19th century, Germany gave to the world that ultimately co-operative enterprise, the proletarian loan bank. The gigantic post-War industrial Frankenstein erected by Herr Stinnes is conceivable among no other people. Only because the German settles down in any workable industrial harness and tugs mightfully is the Dawes Plan practicable. Today there hangs eminent over Germany a new super-Dawes work harness. Already...
...There is nothing more burlesquely comical in the whole Socialist doctrine than the effort to make people believe that human happiness depends exclusively on satisfying man's material needs. Was not the whole doctrine of Gompers* in America the most egotistical expression of proletarian chauvinism, leading to manifestations of uncompromising exclusion against all peoples, all races...