Anti-capitalist
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The Condition of the Laboring Man at Pullman (American cartoon, 1894)
Text: The Condition of the Laboring Man at Pullman. Year: 1894. Publisher: Chicago Labor newspaper. Artist: NA. Additional information: Depicts George Pullman, founder of the Pullman Company, squeezing a worker with ‘low wages’ and ‘high rent’. Published during the Pullman Strike, a significant labour strike triggered by wage cuts and layoffs at the Pullman Company.…
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Equality of sacrifice? (Canadian cartoon, 1939)
Text: Equality of sacrifice? Year: 12 October 1939. Publisher: The Federationist. Artist: NA. Additional information: Cartoon shows a worker shouldering the immense ‘war costs’ while a capitalist runs off with the war profits’. The cartoon appeared in the The Federationist, a Vancouver-based newspaper published by the socialist Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in the 1930s and…
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Capitalism (French illustration, 1907)
Text: Capitalism. Year: June 1907. Publisher: L’Assiette au Beurre. Artist: Gabriele Galantara. Additional information: The illustration depicts capitalism personified as a bloated, money-grabbing monster rampaging through an industrial scene, crushing workers and factories underfoot. It was published in L’Assiette au Beurre, a socialist-anarchist magazine based in Paris during the early twentieth century. Gabriele Galantara, the…
