Word: capitalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Such reporting by Better Times disturbs the parent Times much as a squeaking Leftist mouse would disturb a capitalist elephant. Most galling is Better Times's latest boast: "A distinct improvement in the New York Times handling of news from Rebel Spain was noticed by readers after the exposure of William Carney as Franco's press agent* in the last issue of Better Times. . . . Mr. [Publisher Arthur Hays] Sulzberger is quoted as saying of the Spanish War, I confess to a vast sense of relief that I do not have to take sides either with Loyalist or Rebel...
...precisely a clarion call for world revolution but it was enough of a hint of old-fashioned Bolshevism to set off speculation on a possible shift in the Communist Party "line." For the keystone of the "line" has lately been not world revolution but co-operation with the capitalist democracies for a collective stand against fascism...
...return to revolutionary principles was at hand, there was no indication of it in the U. S. Communist Party. The Daily Worker appealed to patriotic sentiment by printing a picture of a capitalistic U. S. flag riddled by General Franco's bombers as it flew over Barcelona's Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. building. Meantime the two tiptop U. S. Communists, William Z. Foster and Earl Browder, had returned to Manhattan from Moscow, still talking collective security, which means support of Capitalist Franklin Roosevelt. Mr. Browder, who holds down the same official...