Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy is 70% self-development, 20% compromise and 10% fight the Japanese." He had the ruthlessness to cut down obstacles: "A revolution is no invitation to a ban quet." He had the brilliance, cunning and tenacity to win with his methods, even though Moscow, traditionally building on an industrial proletariat for years, thought he was wrong, backed other factions. Married: four times (including one wife executed by the Nationalists). Children: seven or eight, including five abandoned to peasants during the Long March. Characteristics: high-pitched voice, heavy smoker, lumbering gait. Seen in public only twice in the past four months...
...trash. The trashiest: two heavyhanded pieces of political propaganda by Communist Painter André Fougeron. One, called Atlantic Civilization, had all the artistic merit of a low-class comic strip; it showed a soldier shooting from a brassy U.S. automobile while a bloated capitalist looked on gloatingly and the proletariat wept over their coffins. Le Figaro called Fougeron's work an "imbecility," and it was too much even for Communist Poet Louis Aragon, who wrote in Les Lettres Françaises: "Fougeron's works are hastily and clumsily painted . . . We must tell André Fougeron, 'Stop here...
...Worker likes the picture's historically "accurate" description of the conflict between the landed proletariat and the "terroristic" cattle barons, but it deplores the fact that Hero Alan Ladd follows "the Hollywood strongman tradition," which, "coupled with extreme emphasis on a series of bloody fist fights, constitutes . . . capitulation to current Hollywood standards." Another deviationist error: "The wives of the homesteaders . . . are shown urging their husbands to give up and move on. This is an insult to the great tradition of pioneer women...
...Lenin made Molotov Second Secretary of the Communist Party Secretariat. The first secretary: his old ally Joseph Stalin. In the Trotsky-Stalin feud Molotov stuck by Joe, helped him transform the dictatorship of the proletariat into the dictatorship of the secretariat. One by one, the Old Bolshevik revolutionaries went down before Stalin's wrath: Trotsky the warlord, Zinoviev, chief of the Communist International, Bukharin, Lenin's "closest disciple" and longtime editor of Pravda, Kamenev, ambassador to London and Rome, Tomsky, head of trade unions, Rykov, head of government. Their power went to Stalin, their jobs to his faithful...
Onetime Poet Louis Aragon cravenly wrote three columns of self-criticism in L'Humanité. Sample: "Too often we admire indiscriminately the poetry, paintings and expressions of certain society . . . Thus the intellectuals of the militant proletariat may occasionally open the gate to counter-revolutionary bourgeois ideas...