Word: proletariats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several times been Foreign Minister) Socialist Vandervelde was in Paris last week when he launched an attack on the Third (Communist) International, particularly condemning Moscow's doctrine that "the present is the last crisis of Capitalism, inevitably to be followed by the World Revolution of the World Proletariat...
Like all cinemas from the Socialist Soviet Republic, "Soil is Thirsty" bludgeons the great truths of the class war into the consciousness of the audience; the suffering Turkmen in Turkestan are rescued from their Capitalistic overlord by five young Russian engineers. With this simple salvation of the proletariat for a theme, the plot manages to create a blood-and-thunder milieu, filled with hurricanes, dynamiting, death, and a happy ending. The Turkmen are virtual slaves of the cruel heavy, a Bey with a sneer and black waxed mustachios; the Musselmen laboriously draw water from deep wells for the garden...
These Russians are not good actors. They strut and fret their hour interminably, and their make-up is very bad. The only real character in this film, aside from Communism, the hero, and Proletariat, the heroine, is poor old villian Aman-Durdy-bey. And he reminds one of a gay ninties revival...
...Municipal political 'machines' now serve as mediators between the bourgeois and proletariat classes, and are in effect, paid commissions by the business men for so doing. If public utilities were taken from the control of the state, all necessity for such 'machines' would be obviated, and their accompanying corruption would disappear...
...James Hanley, latest White Hope of the intelligentsia, was born in Dublin in 1901, went to sea at the same age as his hero. 13. In 1916 he joined the army, returning to the sea after the War. Onetime stoker, cook, butcher, clerk, post man. Author Hanley knows the proletariat of which he writes. His writing induces nausea in some readers?Hugh Walpole leading the hue & cry with a public shriek of horror?but causes in others a vehement banner-waving. Among the banner men are Thomas Edward Shaw (Col. Lawrence), Richard Aldington, John Cowper Powys. Laboriously punting upstream Author...