Word: proletariats
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...only in 1961, at the age of 93 that DuBois officially joined the American Communist Party. In a letter of application to Gus Hall, secretary of the Party, DuBois said that he had come to the conclusion that it was through the final victory of the proletariat that the American blacks would achieve racial equality...
...Portugal could spread like wildfire." The appreciative Communists staged a massive street demonstration in support of the M.F.A. But at midweek, Saraiva de Carvalho's forces cracked down not on Soares' Socialists but on the Maoist M.R.P.P. (Movement for the Reorganization of the Party of the Proletariat). In Lisbon, Coimbra and other cities, the police arrested more than 350 members of the M.R.P.P. Among the charges: spreading "false Maoist leftism," kidnaping, and beating and arresting several people during the previous week, including two American Marine guards from the U.S. embassy...
Pipes's failure to discuss the rising proletariat is his most serious omission. In the end, his conservative bias leads him to overlook the savior in Russian history he was looking for. And with this error, it is no wonder that his Russia remained the vast, backward, absolutist country it had been for centuries...
This identification of the Harvard administration with the larger community of governmental and business administrators results in several remarkable misconceptions. The first, and most damaging, of these is that Harvard is a corporate entity in the classical capitalistic sense. Labor disputes are couched in the classic terms of struggling proletariat versus grasping, profit-conscious management; budget surpluses are denounced as "inexcusable" by The Crimson, and students stand amazed at the greed of an administration that could let alumni-giving projections play a part in determining sex-ratios in admissions...
...swiftly against what Costa Gomes described as "those few persons who cannot distinguish between being free and being liberated, confusing democracy with the absence of authority and legality." Two radical leftist parties, the tiny Alliance of Workers and Farmers and the student-dominated Movement for the Reorganization of the Proletariat Party (M.R.P.P.), were banned. Both were accused of staging violent street demonstrations and disrupting rival political rallies, but some observers thought that they were being eliminated at the behest of Portugal's Moscow-oriented Communists. "The Communist game is to play Mr. Clean," said one foreign diplomat. "The Maoists...