From the heart of the first Great Depression comes this cartoon from A. Redfield’s The Ruling Clawss, a collection of cartoons he did for the communist newspaper The Daily Worker. Excerpts from this book have been uploaded to Flickr by Michael Kupperman. Redfield was a pseudonym for Syd Hoff, a New Yorker cartoonist. Philip Nel has a short profile of Hoff and his work as Redfield up on his blog.
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It neatly shows how little has changed in the past seventyfive years, doesn’t it? You can find the same attitudes Redfield documents only thinly disguised in government policy and “market” attitudes all over.
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