Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will the Russian proletariat accept the new bills? They must, think the authorities, if the old bills can be called in. And as an inducement to this end, the Soviet Government has launched a "bread loan", by which it offers flour for sale at two-thirds the market price,--payment to be made this month and delivery at the end of the year. The Government is, in fact, gambling that heavy harvests this fall will reduce the price of flour to less than two-thirds of the present market price; but the peasants and laborers do not realize this...
...quite complete. As all strikers are iniquitous and all strikers should be exterminated, is it not foolhardy to kill off merely the workers? It is the mothers who breed future strikers. They too must be annihilated. If respectable people are ever to enjoy peace, the entire proletariat must be wiped out. By the expenditure of a few extra pounds of explosives, the air pilots can easily destroy the undesirable slum sections of our cities...
...that the mob does not recognize a good thing, but someone free from the conservatism of the mob must see it first and call their attention to it. Mob superstitions are more vehemently held among the white-collared middle class (bankers are very middle class) than among the proletariat and real aristocrats...
...comic opera. The population, in overthrowing the monarchy, also repealed the old royal edict against duelling which was found necessary in order to keep the Army from killing itself off in times of peace. Since an army is now held to be a menace to the freedom of the proletariat, it was thought wise to provide a safe way for getting rid of it. Hence the adoption of the duel...
...communism is not to reconstruct, not to build on the old foundations, but to sweep away all that now exists that a new and better world may be created in which the strife of classes has no place. The means of revolution and of temporary dictatorship of the proletariat are more than justified by the glorious end which they will bring about...