Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Read Digest Dec. '39 p. 5, N.Y. Times June '30 F 9, N. Y. Post June 8 '34 N. Y. Sun Nov. 18 '33 edit'l pp. crities, incld'g lekes, Elmer Davis, U. S. Senator Fletcher seem to say that the plutocracy aided when necessary by an allied Proletariat machine rules completely in what Stuart Thomson (W.W. in East: N.).: U.S.A.: Authors: Canada: Interna'l London) calls "censorship by exclusion: autocracy by preemption" in publicity and opportunity in his effort to restore his beloved Middle class in expression and property (homes sec Princeton Survey) confiscated by quadrupled taxation. Some...
History. Karl Marx believed and taught that the industrial proletariat was inherently revolutionary, that its numbers and miseries would increase, that its conflict with the capitalist class would intensify, that eventually it would be able to overthrow the "bourgeoisie," and that, after the revolution, classes would disappear in a new kingdom of freedom, and government would "wither away...
Parkes demonstrates that by 1914 the working class had almost universally developed a tradeunion, not a revolutionary, point of view; that the stronger the union movement became, the less revolutionary were its purposes; that the proletariat's size was reduced by machinery, its miseries by reform. Seeing all this, Lenin did not deduce that Marx had been wrong. Instead he formed the Communist Party to lead the working class, not to what it seemed to want but to what Marx had decided it ought to want. And to win the Russian Revolution, Lenin had to diverge from Marxism again...
Lenin's great experiment established a dictatorship, nominally "of the proletariat," actually of the Communist Party and eventually of Stalin alone. New class distinctions arose between workers, managers and bureaucrats. The Soviet Government has so far shown no signs of withering away-though Communists expect it eventually to do so. Meanwhile outside Russia the sometimes heroic Communist International has been effective in nothing so much as in scaring the pants off the middle class...
Third International. Soviet organs raked the French Cabinet savagely for its suppression of the French Communist Party, and at Moscow last week the long somnolent Third International, whose business is to foment "the World Revolution of the World Proletariat," was again heard from in a broadside by V. Florin. He appealed to "workers of the World" to "fight against capitalistic warmongers...