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Wednesday's forum went behind the headlines about skyrocketing food prices and wild trading in the pits of the grain exchange to highlight the one fact that the banker-capitalists cannot escape: depression conditions force them to keep up their payments on ever-increasing debts. To escape bankruptcy proceedings and the loss of their property titles, they must cut costs at all costs, and the one cost that is within their direct control is the cost of labor...
...crime inherent in this process lies not just in the current high food prices, not just in the tractors that go unrepaired for lack of money, not just in the baby chicks killed because grain to feed them is too expensive. The criminal incompetence of the international capitalist class to run the world economy is destroying the productive agricultural infrastructure, guaranteeing the bankruptcy of small and medium size farmers, guaranteeing that the factories are unable to invest in new farm machinery and fertilizer production, guaranteeing the lack of research money for the development of new seed, new agricultural methods...
...Brodkorb, an automobile salesman from South St. Paul, and his wife Lois are two of the more flamboyant party givers. They come in a purple 1951 school bus (the Vikings' colors are purple and gold), laden with the fruits of five weeks of planning-two quarter-barrels of Grain Belt beer, 18 Ibs. of roast beef, a ham, fish, potato salad and home-baked beans. They also bring a flatbed truck to serve as a stage for Joe Tomaszewski's six-piece Polish Show Band. "I don't hunt or fish-I just party," says Bernie Brodkorb...
...heard so much about tailgating I thought just one time I'm going to see one." Nick and his wife Carol, like some others, decided that football tickets were the least important aspect of the day. They and their pals sat in a Winnebago, next to their Grain Belt beer, and watched the Vikings beat the Packers...
...archpoetic rebel and social critic, Auden was all bang and no whim per. The infected society "needs death, death of the grain . . . Death of the old gang." Nobody was better than he at describing a private attack of the hoo-has, personal angst, and a public sense of doom wrapped...