Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people's rights-a day of strong, inflexible faith in the destiny of the Fatherland! The war in East Africa is a war of civilization, a war which our people feel is a thing of their own. It is a war of the poor, a war of the proletariat against egotism and hypocrisy, against crooked Europe...
...dividing the nations of Europe as internationally splitting social layers. Broadly speaking, the upper classes, from Scotland to the Golden Horn, and the governments of nations ruled by aristocrats and the bourgeoisie were for peace at the price of partitioning Ethiopia to make a Fascist holiday. Broadly speaking the proletariat, the lower classes and nations governed by Socialists (such as the Scandinavian kingdoms) were for delivering the death blow to original Fascism by means of Sanctions and then civilizing Ethiopia in a community spirit...
Stakhanovite Celebrations. Workers of the World may not agree that the speed-up of Alexei Stakhanov is a good thing for the proletariat, but they unite in applauding the medals and the motor car Dictator Stalin has given Stakhanov, the silk lingerie and perfume he bought in Moscow for his wife. Individual Stakhanovites all receive fabulously high pay -the question suspiciously asked by Soviet workers being how long such exaggerated wages will be paid after any great number of workers have been induced to speed up. Afraid that "Stakhanovism" is in fact a continent-wide swindle of the proletariat...
...Poems Out of Childhood," the long "Theory of Flight," 14 short pieces that range from glimpses of a cinema and a burlesque show to a defiance of Washington. "City of Monuments." Muriel Rukeyser is "a Left Winger and a revolutionary," but her poetry contains no direct appeals to the proletariat and her symbols of revolt are imaginative. The world of which she writes is chaotic, bloody, violent, filled with crimes of perversity, such as are suggested by a recollection of Loeb & Leopold: how they removed his glasses and philosophically slit his throat. Man's conquest of nature, primarily...
Strategy of the leaders was to approach His Majesty's Department of Mines last week and brandish the proletariat's authorization gently with the intimation that "Nobody wants to strike...