Word: proletariat
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...member of the proletariat, he learned something else: communism, the doctrine spreading among French industrial laborers and the Chinese students among them. In 1922 Deng joined the Communist Youth League set up by his expatriate countrymen. With a practical mind for detail, Deng helped duplicate and distribute the party newsletter, a job that earned him the mock degree of "doctor of mimeography." He earned his true credentials, however, in Moscow, where he studied Marxist-Leninist thought in 1926. Then it was back to a strife-torn China to propagate the faith. Deng's first assignment, as ideological watchdog...
...Perspective: Onward Spartacus Youth! This paper brings new meaning to out in left field. Way out.... Yes: the pseudo-intellectuals will be the vanguard of the proletariat. Oh, by the way, the war in Vietnam is over. Maybe an all-American activity like a softball game with the Peninsula staffers is all that's needed...
Free trade has spurred some class resentment too-an effect foreseen by Karl Marx, who predicted in 1848 that it would intensify strains between bourgeoisie and proletariat and thus speed a revolution. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, 58% of those surveyed thought free-trade agreements were "mostly good" for U.S. corporations, but 51% thought the effects for workers were "mostly...
...BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The Ghost of Tom Joad (Columbia). Drained of the arena-rock testosterone and bourgeois guilt that have marred Springsteen's recent work, this serene album explores the lives of steelworkers, illegal immigrants and migrant farmers. The Boss is gone, and Bruce is back among the proletariat...
...Russian political scene with a sensational 22.9% of the vote in the December 1993 parliamentary elections. Now, after two years of his bad-boy antics, the Russian electorate appears to be growing weary of Zhirinovsky. Although he can count on enough support from his solid following among the lumpen proletariat to remain a disturbing force in the new parliament, he will have to share the protest vote that brought him to power in 1993 with Lebed, former Vice President Alexander Rutskoi and a host of other patriotic-minded candidates who did not--or could not--run in the last elections...