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...improbably high targets, kept workers in the fields from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m., and during the planting season even longer. By the end of 1958, in the historic "Great Leap Forward," some 550 million peasants in 740.000 cooperatives were swallowed up in 26.500 communes. "We must undermine the capitalist type of social living," said the official Communist organ. Red Flag, "We must undermine the family...
...neither the capitalist type of social living nor the family was so easily undermined. As early as December 1958, party brass noted the growing discontent and cut the workday to twelve hours. They also returned a small portion of the expropriated land to its former peasant owners, together with a small red card that bore the inscription: "This private plot of land belongs to your family permanently, and crops grown on it shall be disposed of by you only...
...Chicago. Garga is a lending library clerk who refuses to sell Shlink his personal judgment of a book. Shlink decides to buy Garga's soul instead, and a peculiar campaign of mutual self-abasement develops. At first the audience is led to think that Shlink is simply a capitalist villain, but halfway through the play, in an intriguing reversal, Brecht makes clear that Shlink himself is a victim-one whose skin has been so toughened by life that he can no longer feel. In fact, he probably stages his battle with Garga only to see whether any sensation will...
...Brecht's Communism was uncceptable to the Communist critics, and his satire of capitalist society lacked applicability within the Soviet Union, where audiences were confronted with entirely different sets of problems. Unforgiven on the left for his bourgeois origins and preoccupations, this son of a wealthy Bavarian paper manufacturer was simultaneously feared on the right. A self-made Marxist, Brecht was left an ideological orphan...
Barracuda Waters. Not all of Dos Passos' sad sagas involve labor unions. Jasper Milliron is a driving venture capitalist who hopes to give an old-line baking-powder company a technological transfusion. Instead he sees his dream bleed to death in the barracuda waters of corporate executive suites. "Man is a creature that builds institutions," writes Dos Passos. The larger moral of Midcentury is that these institutions in turn grow so big and rigid, corrupt and powerful that they crush and entrap the builders. Whether it is bigness or power spawned by bigness that corrupts, big labor can scarcely...