Word: proletariat
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Both the Peking Daily and the Worker's Daily have attacked the posters' call for human rights as "a slogan of the bourgeoisie and not of the proletariat." A front-page editorial in the Peking Daily contained one of the most ferocious assaults on capitalism to appear in China in several months. Said the paper: "Capitalist society is a mercenary slave system, involving police persecution, suicides, prostitution and so on." The Daily also castigated "certain young comrades" for their "lack of patriotism" in "begging for the support of imperialism in their espousal of human rights...
...only liberals but self-proclaimed "radicals" equate China's invasion of Vietnam with Vietnam's military conflict with Cambodia. For liberals and pacifists all invasions are equal. Not so for Marxists What is key for usin an analysis of the class forces involved. We are partisans of the proletariat and defend their interests against those of the bourgeoisie. As Trotskyists, we understand that what is at the root of the conflict between Vietnam and Cambodia is the rival nationalism inherent in all Stalinist bureaucracies. The Stalinist "theory" of "Socialism in One Country" has in practice meant selling out workers struggles...
...cultural elitism of public television have been dredged up. "When working-class Americans are being pitched off Amtrak passenger trains to save a few bucks," notes former White House speechwriter Pat Buchanan, "it approaches the obscene to demand that taxpayers triple their subsidy to this playpen of the penthouse proletariat." Never one for subtlety, James J. Kilpatrick says he "sees no reason on God's green earth for taking the taxpayer's money in order to nuture those happy hotdogs of the intellectual left who would love to get on the air and read their gaga poems at public expense...
...same idea is echoed forcefully by Bayard Rustin, the civil rights veteran, who condemns the "self-righteous, elitist neo-Malthusians who call for slow growth or no growth. The policies of these elitists would condemn the black underclass, the slum proletariat and rural blacks, to permanent poverty." Rustin contends that the curtailment of construction projects, factory expansions and farm ventures for environmental reasons already has cost many potential jobs for blacks. The only way that unemployed blacks can join the work force in a significant way, he argues, is for the economy to grow vigorously...
Elaborated by Mao as the classic "two-line struggle" between the elite technocrats and the proletariat, the economic revolution is in the material realms; social revolution bascially means changing the social structure to liberate the masses...