Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From 16 nations there converged upon Cassel, Germany, last week, furtive delegates to an ominous convention. Most entered Germany on forged passports. All were agents of the Third International: the Communist bureau at Moscow devoted to fomenting "The World Revolution of The World Proletariat" (TIME, Jan. 30). As the delegates filtered into Cassel, several were recognized by the German secret police. Shrewd, the police officials allowed the convention of professional seditionists to proceed in apparent deadly secrecy but contrived to overhear all that passed by means of dictaphones...
Meanwhile the Soviet press was vigorously astir with discussion of the significance of the Afghan visitation. Since the Russian proletariat has been taught to hate and despise "kings" and "emperors," His Majesty was ambiguously referred to in the press, by order of the Soviet censor, as a "Padisha." Curiously enough, however, the verbal use of "Majesty" was not barred, because research had established that the late Nikolai Lenin, founder of the Soviet State, whose every act and word has become a sanctified example, once addressed to the "Padisha of Afghanistan" a letter which began, "Your Majesty...
...These Kulak speculators," rasped M. Stalin, "shall be prevented from ever again attempting to starve the Red Army and the urban Proletariat...
...become so again. Of the 98 expelled, last week, three rank as at least second string great men in Russia: 1) Christian Rakovsky, recently recalled as Ambassador to France at the request of that nation, which feared him as a tireless fomenter of "The Revolution of the World Proletariat"; 2) Karl Radek, probably the most brilliant publicist of the third international (bureau for world Communist propaganda); 3) Lev Borisovitch Kemenev, onetime holder of numerous offices approximating "cabinet rank" in the Soviet Government. That these men - and Zinoviev and Trotsky - have had their careers blasted by the present Dictator of Soviet...
...Though Joffe came of a bourgeois family, he broke body and soul with the old ideals and devoted himself wholly to the cause of the proletariat. At the end of an overburdened physical suffering, he yielded to a temporary depression, but I ask you, comrades, to imitate him not in his death, but in his life, which was dedicated to the purest principles of Marx and Lenin, under whose flag he marched, as we march, to the bitter...