Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some great secret upheaval going on in Red China? The editorial in the party journal, Red Flag, certainly had a bloodthirsty ring. "A death struggle between the bourgeoisie to restore capitalism and the proletariat" is taking place, warned Red Flag, calling on the people of Red China to guard against a "counterrevolutionary" uprising of the 1956 Hungarian variety. "Failure to take the necessary steps to prevent it would cost the lives of millions of our people...
...Anyone who opposes Chairman Mao Tse-tung, opposes Mao Tse-tung's thoughts, opposes the party central leadership, opposes the proletariat's dictatorship, opposes the correct way of socialism. Whoever that may be, however high may be the position and however old his standing, he will be struck down by the entire party and by the entire people...
...full advantage of their political rights. The students see a common bond with such groups which the groups themselves often do not share. An SDS expedition to organize the meatpackers in Haymarket Square against the Vietnam war found themselves harassed and jeered by the workers. "So that's the proletariat," one student commented on his way back to Cambridge...
...pamphleteers muttered as he left, "So that's the proletariat...
Xavier Domingo, a 36-year-old Spaniard who works as a literary journalist in Paris, has chosen to write about a civic "nightmare"-the 1961 police action against the sub-proletariat of Algerians living in the squalid city outskirts-in terms of a real nightmare...