Word: proletariats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sober French trade union leaders and the property-hugging French proletariat were at their wits' end last week as obstreperous Communists and wharf scum at the naval ports of Brest and Toulon staged a bloody dress-rehearsal of revolution...
...change in the political or social order of the United States." If this pledge was worth the paper on which Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff signed, it meant that the Comintern, or Moscow organization of the World's Communist Parties for "the World Revolution of the World Proletariat," would be dissolved. Fortnight ago it was still going so strong that its Seventh Congress met in the former Hall of Nobles, but efforts were made to suggest that the Comintern had adopted a new policy of supporting democratic governments temporarily as bulwarks against Fascism (TIME, Aug. 5). This change...
...This heresy was enshrined at Moscow last week as Communist dogma. In the former Hall of Nobles, some 600 Communist Party delegates from nearly every country in the world met as the Seventh Congress of the Comintern, cheered Dictator Stalin for 15 minutes as "the Leader of the World Proletariat," and got their orders...
...those countries where remnants of parliamentary government and Demo- cratic freedom remain the proletariat still has a chance, though a pitiful and trifling one, to organize and openly defend its class interests, despite the heavy oppression of the Capitalist system...
...Where there is a Fascist dictatorship the proletariat is deprived even of the most insignificant rights and opportunity legally to defend its class interests. Therefore, we Communists will fight wholeheartedly to retain every ounce of Democratic freedom...