Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Curcio married a fellow radical, Margherita Cagol, code-named "Comrade Mara." The two moved to Milan, where they swiftly became zealots of armed struggle. The Red Brigades were set up in November 1970 as "an armed proletariat vanguard to be the revolutionary power of the exploited classes." The Communists, in the organization's view, had sold out; the aim of the brigatisti, much like that of 19th century anarchists, was to purify society by overthrowing all existing institutions. But the Red Brigades seem to have no coherent vision of what would replace them...
...Marxist-Leninist states, egalitarianism is an empty slogan and socialist rule has become more a dictatorship of praetorians than of the proletariat. In a famous 1957 diatribe, Yugoslav Dissident Milovan Djilas railed against the privileges accorded a "new class" of Communists?party hierarchs, ranking bureaucrats, managers of state enterprises, and superstars in the arts and sports...
...Soviet Union and its East bloc satellites, as well as in China, Mongolia, North Korea, Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba, Albania and Yugoslavia. The most repressive variant of socialism, Marxism-Leninism is a kind of secular religion, preaching the necessity of class warfare, the dictatorship of the proletariat and the concentration of near total power in a tightly structured party that is supposedly the vanguard of the revolutionary masses. Communism is dogmatic in its determination to abolish private property and nationalize the means of production as the first steps toward achieving its ultimate goal, the classless society...
When accused of violating human rights, Marxist-Leninists have usually retorted that once true Communism is established, the dictatorship of the proletariat will disappear, leaving the individual genuinely free for the first time. Meanwhile, though, these facts raise hard questions about the true intentions of the so-called Eurocommunist parties of Italy, France and Spain: after decades of being apologists for totalitarianism, they now profess their commitments to democratic principles. Purged from their platforms is the once obligatory rhetoric calling for violent revolution and a dictatorship of the proletariat. Italian Communist Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer has said that under...
...bourgeois consensus used as testimony to vindicate capitalistic elements in French society, in turn, gave rise to a clearer delineation between those who owned the means of production and those who did not. The peasantry and the displaced aristocracy that so often aligned with the amorphous bourgeoisie against the proletariat in times of social crisis is vanishing along with the obsolete ideas of the feudal hangover. The increasing rationalism that is intertwined with industrial capitalism allows the members of the maturing proletariat to better realize their own interests...