Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about openly in Medellin. They can be spotted spending freely at the glitzy restaurants and nightclubs, some of which are said to be owned by the Mafia, on Las Palmas road. Young women in stone-washed jeans and high-heeled shoes often accompany the members of the drug-industry proletariat. On occasion the four-wheel-drive vehicles they favor cruise the streets in force. The cartel's thugs will sometimes clear a traffic jam by blazing away with their guns pointed...
This week's guests include Mr. and Mrs. Righteous Proletariat, Ken (Daniel Luke Zelman) and Eileen (Heather Gunn), as well as Mr. M.B.A. and Mrs. Happiness-is-a-BMW, Ted (Peter Ocko) and Lou (Nicole Galland). With such contrasting types in one place, something is rotten in the camp of Erpingham...
...destroying the Soviet Union. We in the SYL believe that he Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 is the single greatest victory of the international working class to date, and the greatest defeat for world imperialism. In spite of the parasitic Stalinist bureaucracy which has usurped political power from the proletariat, the central gains of a planned collectivized economy still remain...
...Alice, who has not only a husband but also a hospital job in both ports, is also the mother of three. Simon (Rachid Ferrauche), her Parisian 10-year-old by Philippe, is not only quite pale but also slightly pink, and already attending socialist rallies and talking proletariat revolution. With Vincent, in the more sedate suburbs, she has a boy and a girl who are bratty in a more usually puerile sense...
...world is overcrowded, and overcrowding means competition. It reaches extremes in Manhattan, where perhaps 90,000 artists live and work, providing the art-dealing system with a large proletariat from which trends can be condensed at will. But the struggle for visibility is intense from Maine to Albuquerque, and careerism, once a guilty secret, has become one of the art world's main texts. We have at last reached the state of mind envisioned by Samuel Butler more than 100 years ago in Erewhon, where students are examined in the prices fetched by leading pictures of the previous...