Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immediate restoration of the Hohenzollerns). About 45% of the people remain attached to the Republican régime, although the Catholics, forming about 30% of the Republican vote, could certainly be expected to sup port a Monarchical fait accompli. Something under 8% of the people favor a dictatorship of the proletariat...
...three, John was known in the community as a representative of the proletariat, I as one of the bourgeoisie and Bryan as a scion of the organized, predatory plutocracy. For Bryan lived in a two-story house on D Street, I in a one-story cottage and John paid $10 a month for a room in the third story of a downtown business block...
Stalin also promised the peasants equal representation with the town proletariat. At present, the peasants elect one representative to the local Soviet for every 40,000 inhabitants, while the cities elect one for every 25,000. Moreover, the peasants are eligible only for local office and are debarred from holding any of the higher positions. All this is to be changed and peasants, according to the authoritative word of Stalin, will in the future be eligible to hold the highest executive positions...
...difficulty here is not with the conclusions but with the promise. It is easy to classify most literature as tending either for or against a proletariat millenium, but it should be done without questioning the sincerity of the writers. Interest in the lower classes, "the cult of the poor," did not begin until the eighteenth century. Before that time proletarian milleniums were unheard of, and unimagined. Mr. Sinclair would have one believe that "when an artist embodies his emotions in an art form, he does so because he wishes to convey those emotions to other people . . . and he will change...
Russian Ambassadors, too, have been noted in the past for the splendor of their ambassadorial receptions; but all that belongs to another age. Today, working clothes, red ties and other hallmarks of the proletariat are in fashion at the Bolshevik Embassies...