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...Proletariat. The Pope's message, 66 pages and some 12,000 words long, makes it clear that a considerable degree of commitment is necessary to overcome social ills, which the papal document views as unusually formidable. Grinding urbanization is among the Pope's prime targets. The "inordinate growth" of cities has left men with "a new loneliness in an anonymous crowd...
Instead of favoring fraternal encounter and mutual aid, the city fosters discrimination and indifference. It is the weakest who are victims of dehumanizing living conditions." Cities create a "new proletariat" of the aged, the maladjusted, the handicapped and others on the fringes of society...
Intellectual Proletariat...
...think is a revolution by playing in the traffic, and if you happen to avoid arrest, don't come back here crying 'repression!' and try to stir up Act Two of your kind of revolution. Some trashing and some attempts at stirring up the campus proletariat have gotten to be routine around here and they don't impress anybody. The activities of last week made up a legitimate and resounding demand for an immediate end to America's latest bungling overseas caper. The kind of stuff planned for next week will do nothing but detract...
...educated Montagnard remarked bitterly that the relocation centers in Darlac surrounded by Vietnamese-occupied land "look like Indian reservations." He suspects that Vietnamese policy is aimed at making rural proletariat out of relocated Montagnards, noting that in Lam Dong Province as well, Vietnamese relocated Montagnards near a tea plantation. "They will have to sell their labor in order to survive," he said. "It will be a kind of slavery...