Word: proletariats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life (1871-1914), the Church-State issue was the main focus of internal French politics. The issue survives today in a fact of the utmost importance to the struggle with Communism. Although France has never ceased to be a Roman Catholic country in spirit, most of the French industrial proletariat and part of the peasantry have been cut off from Christianity for generations. Natives of the Paris industrial suburb of St. Denis are not converted to Marxism, they are baptized in the triune name of Marx, Lenin and Stalin...
...issue of Presbyterian Life, silver-thatched, 61-year-old Dr. Mackay pictures Protestantism as ringed by three dangerous enemies. The first is religious syncretism, which "denies that Jesus Christ is the truth" but "makes Him one single aspect of a larger truth." The second enemy: Communism, which "substitutes . . . the Proletariat ... as the Saviour of mankind." The third: "Political Catholicism" of the Roman Catholic Church...
...Russia's farm output had to sustain a nation of 137 million people, 86% of them peasants. Now, with a food output only some 30% larger than that of 1913, it has to sustain a peasantry of about the same size as in 1913, plus a new proletariat of 60-odd million city workers - half again more people, a third more food...
...beginning of the Spanish revolution in 1936, according to British Author John Langdon-Davies, the proletariat of Barcelona took to promenading hatless and tieless along the fashionable Rambla. In a ringing editorial, the syndicalist paper, Worker Solidarity, hailed this gesture of defiance of bourgeois convention. Then Worker Solidarity was faced with a storm of protest from the hat and necktie workers' unions. The paper abruptly reversed itself, came out for hats and ties on the Rambla...
...their work. A story comes out on the screen a couple of years later bearing almost no relation to what they wrote. They only work about half a year, yet they want to feel that they're doing something important. So they take up the cause of the proletariat...