Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also its most sexy, in the view of Italian women). Yet, like his party, the slight. shy, introspective Berlinguer is riddled with typically European paradoxes. He is a thorough Marxist theoretician who has devoted his life to the party since he was a teenager. Yet this leader of the proletariat is customarily addressed by fellow Sardinians on vacation trips home as "Don Enrico" because of the family's prestige. As a Communist and atheist, Berlinguer ought to be a rigorous enemy of the powerful Italian Catholic Church. His wife Letizia is a practicing Catholic, and Berlinguer himself has consistently...
...Communist Party use black Zil limousines, hand-tooled and worth about $75,000 each. A network of unmarked stores caters to the Soviet aristocracy. Its stock: rare czarist delicacies like caviar, smoked salmon, export vodka and exotic wines, choice meats. Those stores also carry foreign goods the proletariat never sees: French cognac, American cigarettes, Japanese tape recorders-all at discounts. Including relatives, Smith estimates, these indulged shoppers amount to several million. Everything is maskirovannoye (masked) -the guilty secrets of privilege...
...graphically demonstrated by the recent confrontation between its leader Enrico Berlinguer and Brezhnev in Moscow. The PCI has been strongly committed to democratic institutions and civil liberties for over thirty years; it favors keeping Italy in NATO and has renounced the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat. In fact, even though the general elections may well produce a Communist--Socialist majority, the PCI does not want to form a government exclusively of the left, fearing that drastic polarization would result, as it did, for example, in Chile. It prefers the "historic compromise," a Communist--Christian Democratic coalition which would...
...Communists have deliberately tried to make themselves appealing to a wider spectrum of voters. The Italian and French parties have explicitly disavowed the old Marxian dogma of a dictatorship of the proletariat as well as the need for violent revolution. Instead, they claim to be committed to such democratic principles as political pluralism and freedom of speech and religion. Italian Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer-perhaps Western Europe's most articulate advocate of "socialism with a human face"-has often proclaimed his commitment to "a pluralistic and democratic system." He most recently and dramatically reaffirmed this in Moscow...
...posters and recent editorials in China's leading papers insist that Mao never gave equal importance to the three objectives. His crucial message concerned the dictatorship of the proletariat, meaning that workers must continue to wage "class struggle" against the remnants of the bourgeoisie. A new Mao quote on this subject appeared last week in a front page editorial of the People's Daily. "What?" it asked incredulously. "Taking the three directives as the key link? Stability and unity do not mean writing off class struggle. Class struggle is the key link and everything else hinges...