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Clem Attlee's tour served Labor well by reviving the class hatreds born in "the bad old days." One of Labor's political weaknesses is that a new generation is growing up with little experience of such "capitalist exploitation." At Labor meetings, sometimes as many as two-thirds are people in their 50s. Grumbled one old diehard: "The youngsters will ruin us. They're too young to remember Tory misrule...
...fiercer aspects, Joe Jones* was one, of the angriest proletarian painters of the 1930s. His canvases were packed with demonstrators, motherless waifs and starving victims of capitalist greed. In his milder moods, he turned out farm scenes in the best Midwestern tradition, with bright, theatrical coloring. Said Joe Jones, simply and violently: "I want to paint things that knock holes in walls...
...expect it would), but say nothing of the strange (for a police state) willingness of the common people to talk about politics, living standards, and their government. The attitude of the Russian people towards the U.S.--that we are a nation of downtrodden slaves, held in check by our capitalist masters--is never mentioned, nor is the Russian emphasis on monetary reward. Facts about Russia are hard enough to obtain; when bona fide ones are available, they should be reported fairly... Ken Emerson...
...guests learned about Chinese Marxism was that when it came to lodging and victualing them, at bowing favored guests to ringside tables and stashing the rest behind potted palms, the Chinese showed as much talent as the maître d'hôtel of any decadent capitalist nightclub. Guests were divided into five classes. Class A got Peking's luxurious Hotel Wagon-Lits. Class B was put up in spacious villas such as the outlying Sapphire Bright Farmstead, once the home of a rich family. Classes C, D and E were bedded down in second-rate hotels...
...agricultural production (mostly coffee, bananas and sugar). The top basic wage is 46? a day, compared with 74? on some private farms and a guaranteed minimum of $1.36 on the plantations of the United Fruit Co., which government spellbinders frequently hold up to the workers as a capitalist ogre. In their ramshackle huts government hands are as ill-housed as any agrarian workers in Guatemala...