Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaders of Soviet Russia," he said, "believe every other nation will eventually undergo a revolution and a dictatorship of the proletariat will be established. These rulers seem quite prepared to assist the course of history by keeping a steady pressure where they can. Their emphasis is not on change, but on orthodoxy, on party dogma...
Violence & Scorn. When Eastman joined the Socialist Party in 1911, he published a letter in the party newspaper "denouncing respectability, defending violence, and declaring my scorn of 'the good or bad opinion of everybody in the world but the whole fighting proletariat.'" He became editor of The Masses (a Socialist forerunner of the now defunct Communist New Masses...
...four-hand piano version of Rachmaninoff's long-forgotten first symphony was found in Moscow two years ago; Soviet scholars, looking farther, uncovered orchestral parts in Leningrad. (The Russians, who once scorned Rachmaninoff as "the servant and tool of the worst enemies of the proletariat" because he left Russia after the revolution, now honor him as one of Mother Russia...
...Russian people, without his help, snatched at democracy, he snatched it away from them. Like Father Marx, he knew what was best. He organized riots (see cut) that weakened and, finally, a coup that overpowered the Kerensky government. He organized, as Marx had taught, a dictatorship of the proletariat (i.e., a disciplined little gang of power monopolists). In 1917, in the assembly hall of a swank girls' school in Petrograd, behind unwashed windows that excluded the sky, Lenin stood up. His ill-fitting, overlong trousers flapped about his feet. Gripping the rostrum, he said quietly: "We shall now proceed...
...Comrade Lombardo," yelled another delegate, "figures have killed your common sense. . . . Open your mind to the vivifying breath from the proletariat...