Word: capitalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gallon hats and hair pants (see cut). Over the poker table where they played with steady hand for fat stakes, and on horseback trips where they rode for saddle-galls, the deal was made. The sale was for cash, in which Marquette's chief financial backer, Pittsburgh Capitalist John McKelvy, will have the chief share. It also included a job in TWA's executive line for shrewd "Wink" Kratz...
History. Karl Marx believed and taught that the industrial proletariat was inherently revolutionary, that its numbers and miseries would increase, that its conflict with the capitalist class would intensify, that eventually it would be able to overthrow the "bourgeoisie," and that, after the revolution, classes would disappear in a new kingdom of freedom, and government would "wither away...
Theory. The failures of Marxism in practice argue fallacies in theory. The first of these, according to Parkes, is the idea that the working class alone can, or will, seize political power. The modern working class and the capitalist class are not independent as were the French bourgeoisie and aristocracy before the French Revolution; they are interdependent parts of the same economic organism...
...right, Parkes believes, in encouraging a militant trade unionism. Industrial democracy is essential. But the crucial error of Marxism, as Parkes sees it, was the theory that freedom could be attained only in a collectivized society. On this point the evidence is mountain-high. Says Henry Bamford Parkes: "Capitalist society is half free and half slave; instead of extending freedom to all, the Marxists propose to abolish the freedom...
Befuddled, appalled, embarrassed were Earl Browder and his U. S. Comrades. The Party press went first into a silence, then into a great writhing (see p. 32). Back to Manhattan from vacation hastened Comrade Browder to set the capitalist press aright .in his.ninth-floor eyrie. Said he with aplomb: 1) "The announcement of the Pact has done no injury whatsoever to the Communist Party cause here. I know my Party"; 2) the Soviet Union and the Communist Party in the U. S. have neither abandoned nor compromised their fight on world Fascism; 3) the Pact constitutes "a distinct contribution...