Word: proletariats
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...merchants, when only those of monarchs had before satisfied them. His attack is directed chiefly against those critics who subscribe to Stuart P. Sherman's affecting doctrine that "beauty has a heart full of service." Analysis serves, he says. He hails Sherwood Anderson, "the voice of the proletariat," denounces H. L. Mencken, "vaudeville critic," assails "the Great Man illusion," asserts that geniuses can be made in the laboratory by sensitizing the perceptions of infants. Critic Calverton's own contribution to aesthetics is a style as rigid as a schoolmaster's ferule...
...trying to substitute Trotzkyism for Leninism. It was alleged, according to an official document, that his attacks "had been interpreted by the bourgeoisie and the Social Democrats [Menshevists] as a sign of a split within the Russian Communist Party, and consequently as the disruption of the dictatorship of the proletariat"; that he had "declared war against the very foundation of Bolshevist doctrine"; that "the Second Internationale, the most dangerous servants of the bourgeoisie, are endeavoring to use Trotzky's rebellion 'on principle' for compromising Leninism, the Russian revolution and the Communist Internationale"; that "the peasants have become convinced that there...
...immediate restoration of the Hohenzollerns). About 45% of the people remain attached to the Republican régime, although the Catholics, forming about 30% of the Republican vote, could certainly be expected to sup port a Monarchical fait accompli. Something under 8% of the people favor a dictatorship of the proletariat...
...three, John was known in the community as a representative of the proletariat, I as one of the bourgeoisie and Bryan as a scion of the organized, predatory plutocracy. For Bryan lived in a two-story house on D Street, I in a one-story cottage and John paid $10 a month for a room in the third story of a downtown business block...
Stalin also promised the peasants equal representation with the town proletariat. At present, the peasants elect one representative to the local Soviet for every 40,000 inhabitants, while the cities elect one for every 25,000. Moreover, the peasants are eligible only for local office and are debarred from holding any of the higher positions. All this is to be changed and peasants, according to the authoritative word of Stalin, will in the future be eligible to hold the highest executive positions...