Word: proletarianized
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...thought proletarian chic stopped with the lumberjack shirts and beat-up sneakers of early 1990s grunge, think again. Trucker hats are the latest item to come out of the blue-collar closet, and though true style mavens latched on to them some months ago, the hats have only just made it onto the mainstream radar. If you're not familiar with the look, think baseball caps but with a higher foam front and a plastic mesh back. Designer logos are a no-no: you'll want a trucker hat that advertises beer, motor oil or construction equipment for that extra...
...taken personal control of Soviet cultural life. After writer Maxim Gorky delivered a speech declaring "Socialist Realism" to be the only morally acceptable art form, Stalin imposed it as aesthetic law. No matter that it wasn't realism at all - but instead a dreamy digestible theater of the proletarian paradise to come. For the next 30 years, oversized, brightly lit scenes of handsome and happy workers and their Kremlin leaders toiling for the communist cause went up on every billboard, cinema screen and gallery wall until, as Groys puts it, "they completely altered and reorganized the visual space...
...dishes. Worried about his parents' reaction to his stark life, he took the pseudonym George Orwell - probably from his hero Victorian novelist George Gissing and from the Orwell, a Suffolk river whose precincts the young nature lover hiked. It was a commercial flop, but it established him as a proletarian writer with an eye for detail. He began picking up commissions for essays and reviews, sometimes turning out four or five a week, earning barely enough to keep him in hand-rolled cigarettes. Tall, gangly and socially inept, he flung himself at women, who usually retreated in terror...
...changed his life and the lives of every citizen in the most populous nation on earth. In urgent tones, a news reader announced that Mao Zedong was exhorting citizens to rise up and "bombard the headquarters" to rid the party of his rivals and enemies. That day the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, announced two months before, took hold...
Speaking to a group of less than 20 people, Len Meyers of the “proletarian, revolutionary and internationalist” organization the Sparticist League, compared Israeli leaders to “Nazis” and “terrorists” and said the solution to the region’s conflicts was for workers to revolt...