Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bourgeois of the world, unite!" This seemed destined to be the newest battle cry of the Communist Party, whose self-imposed historic mission is the destruction of the bourgeoisie. The "Peace Front" recently launched in Italy (see below) aims to entice not only the proletariat, but white-collar workers," small businessmen and anyone else gullible enough to fall for Communism's pseudo-democratic propaganda. In Paris, France's No. 2 Communist Jacques Duclos last week wooed the matronly middle class like a Red Bluebeard...
...week's end, Rivera ungraciously exposed Siqueiros' attempt to supply him with an alibi. In a letter to El Popular Diego admitted that he had indeed shot at the bus driver-but with a blank cartridge. Denouncing efforts to picture him as a lover of the proletariat who went around shooting proletarians, Rivera said that he had shot in self-defense after the bus driver had tried to run him down. He had been coming home peacefully in his station wagon, he said, when he found the Calle Centenario blocked by a bus. There were excited words, spiced...
...British Labor Party. How could a government ruling in the name of the working class compel workers to work? How could a minority of the nation force the whole nation to accept the regimentation inseparable from planning? Communists, realistic and ruthless, had answered: by the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, which in reality meant the dictatorship of the secret police. Socialists, well-intentioned and opportunistic, had evaded this problem in theory; now, in practice, history had brought them face to face with...
Communism, the 20th Century's great myth, has spawned a host of subsidiary myths. Conspicuous among them is the widely peddled notion that Russia's dictatorship of the proletariat has lifted proletarians to new heights of human dignity. The Russian line is: We have liquidated capitalism and thereby ended the exploitation of workers. The reality is that the Soviet economy rests squarely on a base of slave labor and that the Soviet Union is the greatest slave state in history...
With the first gunshots, Marx rushed back to the Rhineland to edit the New Rhenish Gazette. The chapter on this episode shows the extent to which Marx's tactics are still standard Communist equipment. The New Rhenish Gazette was a tight little dictatorship of the proletariat run by a back-room clique of case-hardened Communists. But communism or socialism were rarely mentioned in its columns ; the paper posed as a liberal organ. The Communists posed as liberal patriots. In the name of liberalism, Marx shouted for war between Prussia and Denmark. He knew that war is good growing...