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...latter half of his book, Mr. Hicks describes the passing of the Middle Class, the waste incurred by the capitalist system, and offers his solution: Communism, or to be more precise, state ownership of the means of production...
...political problem of the moment: whether, when, and how to align with the State and local laborite groups patterned upon New York's American Labor Party. By an infinitesimal margin the convention downed Leader Thomas' proposal that Socialists oppose the nomination but not necessarily the election of "capitalist" candidates on labor party tickets. It followed University of Chicago's Economist Maynard Kreuger in permitting affiliation with other groups only on condition that Socialists oppose any capitalist candidate endorsed by their nominal allies. Since few aggressive bodies would welcome this sort of allegiance, the Socialists thus retained...
Baldwin insisted that the CIO "has no aspirations beyond the goals of collective bargaining and the protection of labor's rights. It supports no political principles except to make the capitalist system function more fairly...
...specifying the nature of the menace, Mr. Lewis, a former Republican, offered as sweeping an indictment of capitalist economy as has ever come from a labor leader who is not an avowed Marxist. "We do not intend that our children shall starve in the midst of plenty," is the familiar Leftist battle cry which the C. I. 0. chief raised last week. "Hundreds of thousands of the people of this nation have for years on years been exploited, oppressed and denied the exercise of those rights guaranteed to them under our Constitution. . . . They have been little more than industrial serfs...
Leon Trotsky continues from exile to machinate against Joseph Stalin with such dreadful success that, as his agents and fellow conspirators, the 21 who now face death nearly succeeded in remaking the maps of Asia and of Europe by detaching from the Soviet Union and attaching to adjoining Capitalist countries territories with a total area of 625,000 square miles...