Word: proletariats
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...could do was to "free" himself from the absurd world by accepting the worst and going on. To them, "the revolutionary act" was the "free act par excellence," and the existentialists debated endlessly whether they should support the Communist Party. "Should I betray the proletariat to serve truth or betray truth in the name of the proletariat?" worried Sartre...
...organization in order. Out of that grew his characteristically audacious agrogorod plan, a scheme by which scores of small farm and village communities could be amalgamated into large agricultural towns and thus more easily supervised by the police. In effect, farm workers, like factory workers, would become a city proletariat, radiating out to tractor stations each day and returning to the towns each night. When the peasant rebelled in the only way he could, by working inefficiently. Khrushchev cracked down. Stalin rewarded him by putting him on the Presidium of the party and in 1952 making...
...Futurists, composed largely of intellectuals, met with opposition from the so-called "proletariat writers," who denounced the Futurists as being "intellectual-bourgeois," and not fit for the new proletariat society. They felt that literature should be written by the class in power; since Russia was now proletarian, only the proletariats should write. Large "writing schools" were soon established to teach the workers to create poems, novels...
...roused early one morning by the reedy wailing of shawms (an obsolete sort of oboe) serenading him with a waltz beneath his bedroom window. The occasion: Puppet Pieck's 79th birthday, later marked by much handshaking with his fellow Communists, plus (to show his love for the proletariat and also for traditional good luck) a sooty clasp from a chimney sweep. Two days later, in Germany's free Western zone, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer also turned 79. After a public reception at the Bonn Chancellery, Widower Adenauer went to his modest home to whoop it up mildly...
...Only after the Proletariat has disarmed the Bourgeoisie will it be able, without destroying its world historical mission, to throw all armaments on the scrap heap...