Word: proletariat
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...pervasive is this way of life that the Czechs themselves joke about it constantly. They even made a film about it titled Friday Is No Holiday. The movie shows workers plodding lazily through their jobs during most of the week. Then comes Friday, and suddenly the proletariat turns industrious. Some steal bricks to complete the lakeside cottage, others "borrow" pipes for a private plumbing job or barter for extra gasoline to make a weekend excursion. Released in 1978, the film drew packed houses in theaters across the country during its run. The boffo business was not surprising in a country...
...against their masters. And in both the masters fight them off to triumph in the end. Looks like a bit of status anxiety on the part of the aristocrats in ye olds class struggle--yesh, but leave such thoughts, while they may bring lumpen to the throats of the proletariat, for the porcelain throne and Social Studies tutorials...
...Paradise and crazy kid punks, though it seems they might prefer a melding of the two: enthusiastic dancing-types who can afford to pay real cover charges. Capitalism doesn't pose problems for Burma, as it does for some hands they play with. At Jasper's the opening group. Proletariat, sings a tune called "Das Kapital" and the musicians wear Solidarity tee-shirts. Proletariat belts out one number with the line. "Religion is the opiate of the masses," and this is New Wave as well...
...this means that joblessness is increasing rapidly among unionized blue-collar workers, the proletariat par excellence. The very people who are used to steady work--work that provides dignity and enables one to support a family--are being laid off in droves. That makes the unemployment number an index of anxiety, anger, and humiliation as well...
...country after the devastating struggle against Somoza. Although they have been encroaching on their non-Marxist opposition, the Sandinistas have been beset by ultraleftist groups, members of the Nicaraguan Communist Party, who feel that the country is not moving fast enough to ward a total dictatorship of the proletariat. The Communists have encouraged wildcat strikes and farm takeovers that have further hurt the already troubled economy. The Sandinistas have jailed 22 members of the Communist Party and at the same time arrested and imprisoned three prominent businessmen who are members of the country's Superior Council of Private Enterprise...