Word: capitalists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simply one of finding mindless conservatives. Conservatives did see that we couldn't have our cake and eat it too. And as long as they were not the ones to be unemployed, unemployment wasn't too harsh a price to pay for maintenance of capital and the capitalist system. In the period after World War II, by the late 60s, the problems of trying to maintain full employment and stable prices came to a head. We were running into an increasing inflation which by those standards out of line--although it wouldn't be today. Today nobody has a solution...
...decade which saw the rise of "proletarian literature," the politically-loaded fiction of the Communist Party. This genre of writing was peopled by workers with hairy forearms who became converts to Communism; toughened Party members constantly mediating a strike; and villainous foremen who interceded for the exploitative capitalist. Stereotypes abounded in what professed to be the literature of a class, but was in reality the literature of a party...