Word: proletariats
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...Communist Manifesto, Marx writes that "united action, of the leading civilized countries at least, is one of the first conditions for the emancipation of the proletariat." The current Soviet government expands upon the same thesis in one of its many tirades against Yugoslavia contained in its draft of the new Com-Party Program...
...Communist mind, this is entirely logical: the way of achieving the the only force standing in the Communist Valhalla, the "withering away of the state," is the foreign bourgeoisie and its agents, and the only way to eradicate that enemy through the united efforts of the international proletariat...
Failure of Theory. Part of the Reds' difficulty lies in the historic background of Communism, which was invented by urban intellectuals and aimed at the industrial proletariat. In Das Kapital, Karl Marx scarcely mentioned the farm problem except to say that "large-scale industry in agriculture will destroy the bulwark of the social order, the peasant." Marx's successors have persisted in thinking that a farm is just a factory without walls, and that farmers are identical with workers on an assembly line...
...thin sheaves of new bills they received were made in Czechoslovakia, pictured Fidel in heroic stance. Then the government announced one more cruel surprise: any cash that had been turned in exceeding 10,000 pesos would be "confiscated." The vast majority of Cubans could now be considered a true proletariat working for what the government decides to pay as wages. Said one Cuban: "It is a typical Communist technique. They keep them poor and keep them working...
...building a modern highway from Hodeida to the ancient walled city of Sana (altitude: 7,260 ft.), Yemen's oldest capital. Every day, some 2.000 Red Chinese toil shoulder to shoulder with 3,000 of their Yemeni brothers, all the while singing the great ballads of the Chinese proletariat, e.g., "We Will Not Allow United States Imperialists to Ride Roughshod over the People"-to the considerable amazement of the fierce little Moslems...