Word: proletariat
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Months before last week's meeting, it was clear that the Kremlin would fail in its goals. Since the Communists' only hope in Western Europe involves sharing power with democratic parties, many leaders-notably the French, Italians and Spaniards-have scuttled the Marxist "dictatorship of the proletariat" in favor of some measure of heretical pluralism. Although Moscow wanted a strong ideological denunciation of Peking in the platform, the Yugoslavs and the Rumanians demanded that China not be mentioned. Then, Soviet-sponsored drafts of the preconference communique were purged of such ritual assertions that Communist parties "share identical objectives...
...also its most sexy, in the view of Italian women). Yet, like his party, the slight. shy, introspective Berlinguer is riddled with typically European paradoxes. He is a thorough Marxist theoretician who has devoted his life to the party since he was a teenager. Yet this leader of the proletariat is customarily addressed by fellow Sardinians on vacation trips home as "Don Enrico" because of the family's prestige. As a Communist and atheist, Berlinguer ought to be a rigorous enemy of the powerful Italian Catholic Church. His wife Letizia is a practicing Catholic, and Berlinguer himself has consistently...
...motto we learned in Paris," muses Tinling: "There is no such thing as a fault, Madame, simply a characteristic." Class C, it seems, are "the club players, millions of them. They dress all wrong-skirts too short and pants too tight." Like most elitists, Tinling prefers the proletariat, "the public-park wives," whom he puts in Class D. "They buy out of a catalogue. The clothes are simple and direct...
...Communist Party use black Zil limousines, hand-tooled and worth about $75,000 each. A network of unmarked stores caters to the Soviet aristocracy. Its stock: rare czarist delicacies like caviar, smoked salmon, export vodka and exotic wines, choice meats. Those stores also carry foreign goods the proletariat never sees: French cognac, American cigarettes, Japanese tape recorders-all at discounts. Including relatives, Smith estimates, these indulged shoppers amount to several million. Everything is maskirovannoye (masked) -the guilty secrets of privilege...
...graphically demonstrated by the recent confrontation between its leader Enrico Berlinguer and Brezhnev in Moscow. The PCI has been strongly committed to democratic institutions and civil liberties for over thirty years; it favors keeping Italy in NATO and has renounced the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat. In fact, even though the general elections may well produce a Communist--Socialist majority, the PCI does not want to form a government exclusively of the left, fearing that drastic polarization would result, as it did, for example, in Chile. It prefers the "historic compromise," a Communist--Christian Democratic coalition which would...