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Reflecting on the events of 1919, Mao Zedong posited that the MFM marked a key step in the transition from a largely bourgeois movement to one led by the proletariat, the beginning of a revolution that would bring the Communists to power in 1949.

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California Sounds: Reggie Watts and John Tejada pair up as Wajatta with the duo’s first new track since their 2017 debut, a long-form video by Matthieu Moerlen for the Oh Sees’ psyche-rock song “Henchlock” and the video for Cola Boyy’s “All Power to the People” track, a call to action for the proletariat.

Fiscal support from the proletariat is great in politics; the last president to marshal it like Trump was Barack Obama.

What distinguishes “A Slight Ache” from “The Room,” The Birthday Party” and “The Dumb Waiter” — three plays from the same early period — is that it’s the bourgeoisie, not the proletariat, under mounting inexplicable pressure.

It’s an inverse work song, one that juxtaposes hard toil with a flow that cannot be interrupted by the frustrations of the proletariat.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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