Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first is the "class struggle." Under capitalism the main antagonists are the capitalists and the proletariat-the industrial workers. The other elements, such as the farmers and the middle class, fluctuate and drift. The proletariat, Stalin concludes, is the inevitable vehicle for revolution...
...them, Stalin maintains, "interact upon one another" to produce the "objective" (or automatic) conditions for revolution. Thus, says Stalin, a revolution is ripe when the following four situations have resulted from the seething of the contradictions: 1) the proletariat doesn't like the old system any more; 2) the upper classes can't keep going under the old way - it just won't work; 3) the wishy-washy elements (the lower middle class and the farmers) desert the dominant class and go over to the proletariat; 4) internationally, the dominant class is isolated to a considerable degree...
Says Stalin: "The goal is to consolidate the dictatorship of the proletariat in one country, using it as a base for the overthrow of imperialism in all countries. Revolution spreads beyond the limits of one country; the epoch of world revolution has begun...
...languages, right up to the present, he says: ". . . The development of world revolution will be the more rapid and thorough, the more effective the aid rendered by the first Socialist country [Russia] to the workers . . . of all other countries. In what should this aid be expressed? . . . The 'victorious proletariat' of the one country [here he quotes Lenin] . . . after organizing its own Socialist production, should stand up . . . against the remaining, capitalist world, attracting to itself the oppressed classes of other countries, raising revolts in those countries against the capitalists, [and] in the event of necessity coming out even with...
Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi had a painful fortnight. He had had to deal with a counterrevolution in a stadium, a Premier who tried to go AWOL, a peasantry that insisted on owning its farms, a proletariat that insisted on higher wages, and -worst of all-a Christian who prayed for Communists...