Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...establishment of a dictatorship of the proletariat and the elimination of the capitalist can be done by lawful means, I am not here to suggest that it is a crime to advocate it. But it is perfectly well known that some ends cannot be achieved and are not expected to be achieved by lawful means...
...vote of nine to one, however, the Labor Congress, representing over three million trade unionists, refused to allow the Communists to affiliate with the Labor Party. This action is a severe setback to those who believe a violent revolution is the only solution to the proletariat grievances. It is a further indication of the tendency of the Labor Party toward Conservative policies, a tendency first seen clearly during the premiership of Ramsay Macdonald. This tendency probably received impetus from the Labor Party's defeat in the last general election, a defeat largely caused by the nation's fear of Communism...
...supported the high tariff proposed by the Nationalists. But Herr Wirth has grown closer and closer to the Centre's former allies, the Socialists. On one occasion he remarked: "The enemy stands at the right. If it ever comes to a struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat I desire to give notice that I shall be on the side of the proletariat...
...merchants, when only those of monarchs had before satisfied them. His attack is directed chiefly against those critics who subscribe to Stuart P. Sherman's affecting doctrine that "beauty has a heart full of service." Analysis serves, he says. He hails Sherwood Anderson, "the voice of the proletariat," denounces H. L. Mencken, "vaudeville critic," assails "the Great Man illusion," asserts that geniuses can be made in the laboratory by sensitizing the perceptions of infants. Critic Calverton's own contribution to aesthetics is a style as rigid as a schoolmaster's ferule...
...trying to substitute Trotzkyism for Leninism. It was alleged, according to an official document, that his attacks "had been interpreted by the bourgeoisie and the Social Democrats [Menshevists] as a sign of a split within the Russian Communist Party, and consequently as the disruption of the dictatorship of the proletariat"; that he had "declared war against the very foundation of Bolshevist doctrine"; that "the Second Internationale, the most dangerous servants of the bourgeoisie, are endeavoring to use Trotzky's rebellion 'on principle' for compromising Leninism, the Russian revolution and the Communist Internationale"; that "the peasants have become convinced that there...