Word: proletariats
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...nonsense." Sobchak belongs to the Interregional Group and is considered a radical, but a measured one. He argues that KGB leaders should be barred from political leadership and, perhaps tongue in cheek, that the party might have to be refused registration because it advocates a dictatorship (of the proletariat), which is illegal. But he has spoken up for Gorbachev, saying "Let's not hinder the efforts of this President who pursues a policy of democratic renewal...
...achievement and maintenance of the dictatorship of the proletariat is impossible without a party which is strong by reason of its iron discipline. But iron discipline in the Party is inconceivable without unity of will, without complete and absolute unity of action on the part of all members of the Party. This does not mean, of course, that the possibility of conflicts of opinion is thereby precluded....But after a conflict of opinion has been closed, after criticism has been exhausted and a decision arrived at, unity of will and unity of action of all Party members are the necessary...
...generation later came Bernie Cornfeld with his exhortation, "Do you sincerely want to be rich?" His company, Investors Overseas Services, specialized in mutual funds. "We're in the business of totally converting the proletariat to the leisured class," Cornfeld boasted. An IOS manager recalled the process in less exalted terms: "We bought stocks at $90, not because they were worth $90, but because we believed that tomorrow they would be at $120. When we went home nights, we just hoped the goddam company would still be there in the morning...
From the Oval Office Bush will see not the scarred proletariat leaders of the old era, not the stout peasants who survived Nazi tanks, but lawyers, scientists, writers and an assortment of creative malcontents. Few will be easy to please, and none will be impressed by the Sixth Fleet. Around the White House winded staffers are predicting that Bush will want to meet them all, and if they don't find their way to Pennsylvania Avenue, he will drop in on them...
...phenomenon confined to the snarls of the lumpen proletariat or the cafe chatter of polite society. Western diplomats in Budapest say some leaders of the opposition Hungarian Democratic Forum have made Glempish noises about the undue influence in the media of "alien forces" -- code words considerably less obscure than "goose merchants...