Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large articles saying that in the past the boxes of the opera house had been occupied by the hated capitalists, but now a new state of things had arrived and no such anti-democratic thing would be tolerated. They demanded that the opera boxes be turned over to the proletariat. This agitation produced a result that sounds very American. There was a bomb scare. The " authorities grew excited with fancies of bomb-throwing in the opera house, when the revolutionaries saw that the capitalists still had the boxes. Precautions were necessary. The officials ordered a force of soldiers...
...League of Nations, in States' rights and in every policy that the Democratic Party ever advocated; yet, if he carried his Republican primary, he would be a Republican. He might go to the other extreme and believe in the communistic state, in the dictatorship of the proletariat, in the abolition of private property and in the extermination of the bourgeoisie; yet, if he carried his Republican primary, he would still be a Republican...
...Serrati discovered that his staff had disavowed his radical polities. He replaced them with Communists and in so doing made it known to the Government that he had returned from Russia. He and his fellow Communists were then arrested; Serrati for hav-ing issued a manifesto to the Italian proletariat, urging a union between Socialists and Communists for a revolt against the Government...
...this eminent British statesman, British labor of the more radical order is pouring forth its own candid thoughts on the British Foreign Secretary. Making adequate allowances for this eloquent and angry tornado of censure from communists, there is no denying that the marquis is distinctly unpopular with the radical proletariat in Russia and Britain...
...which has befallen the name of Russia. Regarded dispassionately, the execution seems the quintessence of arrogance and unmixed contempt for the opinion of the world. It is in effect proof positive that the autocracy of the Tsar has only been exchanged for that of the dregs of the Russian proletariat. It appears that the Soviet are anxious to show that the quality of mercy has no place in the creed of Bolshevism. As a matter of fact liberty in all its forms is non-existent in Russia today. Even under the Tsar's despotism the average man had more...