Word: proletariats
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...years ago young (34) Historian Harris established his right to be heard on these matters when he published a factual, informative, detached book, American Labor, that summed up labor's story. There is nothing detached about Labor's Civil War. Like some Mencken of the proletariat, heaving adjectives at labor's sacred cows, Mr. Harris sustains a note of exasperation, ridicule, hell-and-damnation for 298 pages to show how American unions are moving toward "a double suicide of majestic stupidity...
These timely pronouncements were uttered by the late Professor William Graham Sumner of Yale, who was born in 1840 and died in 1910. He it was who coined the forgotten term "Forgotten Man" - though Sumner applied it not to the faceless proletariat but to the harried bourgeoisie, which always paid the bill...
...unusual conjunction of planets. On the third and fifth pages of their Pravda or Izvestia, Muscovites who cared could read of the battle's progress, in dry little paragraphs like items of scientific rather than popular interest. Bigger news which those papers evidently expected to stir the proletariat were developments in the East, especially in the five central Asiatic republics. In this remote corner of Asia, where the U. S. S. R. borders on Afghanistan, on India and on China, the Soviet Government has zealously invested men & money, on the theory that Russia's Asiatic borderlands can properly...
...country in which the Ku Klux Klan loses and in which class arrogance on both sides of the fence is bad form. It has its poverty, but its freedom to discuss and to limit the rights of private property "gives even the most acutely underprivileged groups-Marx's proletariat-a sense that their case is not hopeless." It has its scandals and tragedies-Charley Cross, Emporia's leading banker, got his bank in difficulties in 1898 and rode to his farm on the edge of town to kill himself. "I wonder what he thought when he rode down...
Good-humored, large and shrewd, Ameringer's story does not idealize the proletariat, rings in no abstruse Marxian patter, no unbuttoned revolutionary blab. He makes a roaring farce out of the campaign of the poor to elect picturesque Jack Walton to the Governorship of Oklahoma; after election, the man of the people took to plus fours and golf with oil magnates...