Word: proletariats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rakosi is just as frank about the police-state goal at the end of Communism's road: "After the [World War II] liberation, we didn't clarify this problem before wide masses of the party but only in limited audiences. Any discussion of the dictatorship of the proletariat as our final aim would have caused great alarm among our coalition partners and hindered our efforts to win over a majority of the petty bourgeoisie-even of the working masses." In one field, Rakosi ignored salami tactics, insisting on the whole sausage right at the start: control...
...make history jump through hoops. Where liberals said evil was caused by ignorance, bad social institutions or other "manageable" human defects, the Communists narrowed it down to the institution of property. For the liberal idea of the natural goodness of man, Communists substituted "the exclusive virtue" of the proletariat. "In every instance, Communism changes only partly dangerous sentimentalities and inconsistencies in the bourgeois ethos to consistent and totally harmful ones." This surface similarity made it hard at first for American liberals to realize the danger of Communism, especially since their philosophy did not allow them to comprehend the "evil...
...depend upon the votes of those who are moved by "envy, malice and all uncharitableness." The Marxian concept of graduated income and inheritance taxes was made to order for them . . . The Communist Manifesto advocated ten measures which should be adopted in order to bring about a dictatorship of the proletariat. Two of these measures were: "A heavy progressive or graduated income tax," and "Abolition of all right of inheritance." Well, our politicians, more concerned with votes than with the welfare of their country, have saddled us with the former, and have gone a long way toward the latter...
...going mad-"But if I am . . ." he assured a friend, "I might as well do it with a certain amount of chic." Instead of going mad. he took the more dangerous course of hunting up a new cause, which he found in the "underdog" condition of the British proletariat. "In the old pacifist days I wanted to blow up the War Office . . . Under the ... Oxford Group I wanted to drag people to church by the scruff of their necks, and now ... I felt like marching through Claridge's with a banner proclaiming the doom of the rich...
...newly published 30-page report (not yet translated into English) contained none of the expected wizardry. It urged: welcome foreign capital; cut down controls which discourage foreign trade; shun elaborate social welfare schemes; decentralize factories, to avoid building a citified, slum-dwelling proletariat. Said a Western businessman: "Did they have to send Schacht here to find all this out?" Indonesia's Finance Minister snapped that he agreed with none of the Schacht report except that "Indonesia has a great future...