Word: capitalistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Delegates from Brazil, Mexico, Ceylon and other countries complained bitterly that they needed no advice from "an American capitalist." But Hawes took their complaints in stride. "I'm only trying to be constructive," he explained. "I doubt that there are five fanners here who can get up beside a cow and milk...
Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker seized the occasion of the 132nd anniversary of Walt Whitman's birth to claim him as its very own. "How," cried the Worker, "could the Philistine rulers of capitalist culture stomach an artist who took the side of the people and who dared, despite the heavy penalties of poverty, censorship, and the deprivation of a wide audience, to tell the truth about the organized thievery that passes for the Two-Party System...
...north wall is taken up with Rivera's gloomy conception of Mexican history. To him it is symbolized by three things: a pre-Columbian temple with a bloody sacrificial altar before it, a "pagan-Christian" temple with an altar surmounted by a cross, and a "pagan-Christian-capitalist" temple with the altar this time surmounted by a dollar sign...
Nevertheless, I Was a Communist falls into a crude pattern, both as melodrama and propaganda. Its exposition of the Communist conspiracy-how the party does Moscow's work in U.S. labor unions, industrial plants, schools, minority groups -is as oversimplified, mechanical and unconvincing as the anti-capitalist preachments of left-wing Broadway plays in the '30s. For the benefit of the audience, the movie's Communists are forever reciting to each other, as if for the first time, the ABC's of party tactics. The picture represents Communists as simple gangsters, cynically out for a fast...
...went on, "Capitalist statesman, generals, and politicians are afraid. Cries of fear come from their hearts in means and groans. The facade of America's power has collapsed as mere Chinese peasants are winning in Korea...