Word: proletariat
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...communiqué that provided details of his interrogation by a "people's court." In the transcript, the presiding officer explains to Dozier why he was captured: "Your military career is the story of American aggression against the battle for liberation and revolution in Southeast Asia and against the proletariat struggle in Europe...
...state, a temporary phase during which a revolutionary elite would rule in the name of the working class until all vestiges of the old order were dismantled. Then socialism would give way to true Communism; the state would wither away. So would the elite, or "the dictatorship of the proletariat," as it became known...
...second anonymous call, a day later, was even more ominous. It described Dozier as "the hangman of NATO" and said he was being held in a "people's prison, where he will be judged by the proletariat." No mention was made of ransom or terms for his release...
...into smaller ones. In many cases, workers defied their unions and helped with the chopping. They did so, explains Vito Scalio, a Christian Democratic member of parliament and onetime union leader, because workers believe that the unions are out of date. Says Scalio: "They still insist on representing a proletariat that wants to grow out of the proletariat class and become entrepreneurs...
...responsibility to "fight the reactionary forces in the world-any sort of racist, enemy of peace, any person who threatens the freedom of others, anybody who wants to suppress the young in the striving toward new experiences and knowledge." He defines fascism as "the bourgeoisie in arms against the proletariat," and professes himself a supporter of the burgeoning European peace movement. So what was his reaction to the violent Soviet invasion of Afghanistan? "Ah," says Henze, "that was the [Soviet] workers in arms...