Word: capitalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ideas, all owners of capital) is cruel, lazy and indecent ... pariahs feeding off the poor laboring man. Such a concept, as it gains ground in the mass mind, allows for no exceptions. Ironically enough, it finally comes to the point where even Mr. Young, who is a prominent capitalist, becomes associated in the public mind with the rapacious figure he created...
Workers Come Cheap. Parts of Akutagawa's book might have come from Dean Swift. Accompanied by Gael, "a capitalist of capitalists," No. 23 visited some kappa factories. His guide told him that each month the kappa invent seven or eight hundred new machines which throw 40 or 50,000 kappa out of work. When No. 23 wondered about the absence of labor trouble, his kappa friends explained nonchalantly: "They are all eaten up. We kill all those workers and eat their flesh. This month 64,769 workers have been dismissed and the price of meat has dropped...
...expect to find the capitalist in your shop. . . . Look for him on the golf course. It is there that he will tell you that without him, the industry could not function...
...never comes before you and says, 'I am a capitalist.' He works through various 'front' organizations: large sections of the Republican and Democratic Parties, the 'free' press, the N.A.M., the State Department, and others...
...hands for callouses . . . but this is not conclusive.... If his heart is calloused, he's your man." In short, the woods were full of them, and a Communist couldn't be too careful. A point the Worker did not mention: what to do with the capitalist after he was tracked down...