Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Animal Farm, the constitution was finally reduced to one article: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." The Stalin Constitution still has its 146 articles, but some are more sacred than others. The three most sacred are Article 2 (dictatorship of the proletariat). Article 126 (making the Communist Party "the leading nucleus of all organizations . . . both public and state"), and Article 141 (candidates for public office can be nominated only by the Communist Party and organizations which, to all intents & purposes, it controls). Many of the other 143 are relatively democratic in the Western sense...
...those who have too much. ..." The signal for the expropriation: church bells tolling at dawn. The inciting voices were Communists and left-wing socialists. But the motive force for expropriation was months of disappointment at the Republic's failure to satisfy the land hunger of the rural proletariat...
...coup backfired, as Li Lisan had predicted. The Chinese proletariat did not rise in support of the Canton Soviet. Instead, Chiang Kai-shek's troops quickly mopped up the insurrectionists...
There is less suggestion in the book than in the film that the seagoing proletariat is getting the life squeezed out of it for the satisfaction of a martinet and of the shipowner's wallet. The original account, in fact, is milder but more interesting, and obviously the work of a levelheaded and observant young man who had a sober interest in setting down neither more nor less than...
Tito had to be flexible enough to unite Italian Communist workers with conservative Slovene farmers. His "nationalistic internationalism" says in the same breath: "Slovenes-unite with your brother Slavs in the new greater powerful Yugoslav fatherland," and "Italians-unite with the new greater international brotherhood of the proletariat-down with nationalism." He even designed a new Italian flag, with a red star in the center of the white stripe, to please the Italian Communists. But in Tito's Zone B, Italian Communists cannot display...