Word: capitalist
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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WHEN preceded by the statement, "much of what follows is true," the entire play, and much of the film, strikes me as being terribly obscene. Sackler attempts to voice radical, anti-white-capitalist sentiment, but he seems to have a pretty limited concept of how racism is manifested socially and culturally. (Given the skeletonization of Johnson, and the limited glimpses of the American white community, this is probably inevitable.) When corruptive social forces are embodied as moustache-twirling villains, what is produced is not indignation, but derisive laughter. Similarly, if a black man is victorious even in self-imposed defeat...
...Capitalist Economy: Conflict and Power" deals with radical polities, stressing themes of alienation, education, and socialization. Readings come primarily from Marx and modern radical theorists...
...sign next to the door of the Harvard Bookstore proclaims, 'We are not capitalist pigs, Stealing from us is not liberating anyone...
...tremendous rapport with students and people in Cambridge," Harvard Bookstore owner Frank S. Kramer said yesterday. "Not with the ones whose fathers paid their Coop bills for them, but the ones who wanted to shop around for a good deal on a used book. Now we're just another capitalist. There isn't that same rapport anymore...
...works. "The Cradle Will Rock" (1936), set in Steeltown, U. S. A., attacks the bourgeois who sell out to big business. In "No for an Answer" (1940) he pleads the case of summer workers facing seasonal unemployment. And his opera "Regina" (1949) is based on Lillian Hellman's anti-capitalist play "The Little Foxes...