Word: proletariat
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...century again: years of serfdom behind them, the Russians are cooking up another experiment in miserable failure. But the group of Orthodox monks that stumbled its way from Moscow to Cambridge recently didn’t seem to have any plans as logical as establishing a dictatorship of the proletariat up their embroidered sleeves—they were trying to reclaim the copper bells that a kindly Harvard alum saved from Stalin’s icy clutches seventy years ago before giving them a nice home on the Charles. Let’s review: if the bells weren?...
...model their uprising on Mao Zedong's Basic Tactics (1937) and On Guerrilla Warfare (1937). Their rhetoric is filled with an idealism and romance elsewhere found only in history books. "We want to turn this beautiful Himalayan country into an invincible red fort and a shining trench of world proletariat revolution," declared Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai before the rebels took to the hills in 1996. "We are sure we will hoist the hammer and sickle atop Mount Everest...
...late 1998, a moving company interrupted the production line and began unbolting machinery from the floor. The workers drove out the intruders, guarded the premises around the clock and began looking around for help. Some went to the Worker's Cultural Palace Park, a recreation center built for the proletariat during the heyday of communism. Today it's a gathering place for angry, unemployed laborers. A dozen workers volunteered to help occupy Wang's factory...
...this modern adaptation, cigarette girl Carmen becomes a Quebecois protestor and smuggler, Jose a riot policeman and Escamillo “a Wall Street trader and well-meaning liberal working the proletariat agenda from within the corporate structure”—who, rather cleverly, takes on the “bull market...
...France - is still a diverting bagatelle abounding in gentle humor, warm bonhomie and appealing charm. No small triumph for a tale set in that unhappy era not too long ago when "every nook and cranny of the land came under the all-seeing eye of the dictatorship of the proletariat, which had cast its gigantic fine-meshed net over the whole of China...