Word: proletarians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...platform, the Yugoslavs and the Rumanians demanded that China not be mentioned. Then, Soviet-sponsored drafts of the preconference communique were purged of such ritual assertions that Communist parties "share identical objectives and are guided by common ideology." The Italians, Spaniards and Yugoslavs angrily excised the expression "proletarian internationalism," a code phrase signifying the Kremlin's self-arrogated right to put down rebellious parties...
...chamber, were running nationally for the first time, as were the former "extraparliamentarians," a melange of revolutionary Marxist splinter groups who banded together a few weeks before the election. Having rendered their name a misnomer by running for and winning six seats, the extraparliamentarians now call themselves Proletarian Democrats. The most prominent of the new in-house revolutionaries is P.D. Deputy Luciana Castellina, sharp-witted feminist journalist. This constellation of new Deputies may not make Parliament any more workable, but at least it should add a little luster to Italy's tarnished political image...
...called "historic compromise," a power-sharing between Communists, Catholics and Socialists that Party Secretary Berlinguer proposed in 1973. Although nine parties in all are fighting for parliamentary seats-they range from the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano on the far right to the new and strident Proletarian Democrats on the extreme left-the five-week election campaign at its midpoint has narrowed down to a two-party race...
...didn't you?-and then he says he wants to join forces with us and form a government of unity. Even my son, who is 16 and has some leftist ideas, unfortunately, was disappointed. He thought it was all compromise and contradiction. Now he prefers the far-left Proletarian Democratic Party, or even the Christian Democrats. At least they are coherent, he says...
...fall back on whoever's going to help you, aren't you? That's why Fanfani and Moro had to put on their armor. Of course, you fellows also have to defend yourselves, don't you? What about the Gruppuscoli [fringe groups] of the Proletarian Democrats? Aren't they stealing some of your votes on the left...