Word: proletariats
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First of all, most students do not think of businessmen as money-hungry capitalists bent on crushing the proletariat. American industry has often served as a convenient scapegoat for the frustrations of campus radicals. But we must not extrapolate from cliches to general feelings of hostility. While radical slogans such as "Dow kills babies," "Boycott Stop and Shop," and "Chase Manhattan advocates white racism" mobilize middle-class sentiment against the Vietnam war, exploitation of the grape workers, and South African apartheid, they are but manifestations of a highly active and vocal minority. The radical cause on campus seeks easy targets...
...government branches, including those of the courts. Slavishly socialist, it pledges eternal devotion to the Soviet Union and declares that East Germany has the responsibility to lead the rest of Germany "into a future of peace and Socialism." Formally establishing the old Marxist goal of the dictatorship of the proletariat, it states that "all political power is exercised by the working class"-which means, of course, the Communist Party. In a tacit reference to the Wall, the new document confines freedom of movement for East Germany's 17 million people to the country's boundaries. In hopes...
...dictatorship of the proletariat does not occur, but Christmas cards are, in fact, received
...revise Marx to fit the Russian pattern, it was Nikita Khrushchev who launched the official decline of the doctrine. Faced with the necessity of solving countless economic and social problems, today's Soviet planners find such Marxist theories as class revolution and "the dictatorship of the proletariat" just plain nuisances. The Chinese are right, of course: the Russians are revisionists. In a very real sense, Russia has survived Marxism more than it has been formed by it. "The revolution is over," says Glasgow University Sovietologist Alec Nove. "Its rationalities, its logic, have little further relevance so far as economic...
...crowds are also showing a healthy liking for good old-fashioned realism. At the International Sculpture Garden on the Ile Ste. Hé1ène, which includes 55 works from 17 countries, four out of five fairgoers applaud Ivan Chadre's Stones Are the Arms of the Proletariat. "I can relate to it," says one Ontario housewife pushing her two-year-old in a gocart...