Capitalism -- Social aspects.

"This picture shows the gun the capitalists have ready for you. They used it to crush the street car strike at Columbus, Ohio. The will use it again...." Description of a packet of socialist materials one can acquire for one dollar: 50 socialist books, 50 socialist postcards, 100 socialist stickers, 500 socialist leaflets, and 10 late numbers of the International Socialist Review. Published by Charles H. Kerr and Company, Chicago, Illinois.

This archive, and its accompanying library, were acquired by Guy Logsdon, then Library Director, in 1977. It is ascribed to Harold Leventhal, who was a folk music manager, handling such musicians as the Weavers, Woody Guthrie, Peter, Paul and Mary and Joan Baez. This archive includes an selection of correspondence of the noted activist Ammon Hennacy as well as biographical materials.

"The crisis in the content of cultural forms is directly related to the general crisis of capitalism...The bourgeoisie definitely takes a class position on the question of culture. We, as communists, must do the same. We must realize that culture is an instrument of class struggle and encourage the talenst of working class artists particularly those of the nationally oppressed minorities...."

"...In banking as in all other fields, attempting to regulate private business has proved a little better than leaving it completely unrestrained, but BRIBERY, JUGGLING OF ACCOUNTS, and the CONSISTENT POISONING OF THE PUBLIC PRESS has larghely nullified the success of regulation...."

Printed poem, "The State", by Jo Labadie. Also includes a list of book titles as "Important Social Studies for Intellectual Adults...If the views expressed in these books are not soon understood and acted upon, the American people may shortly be under the slavery and tyranny of Fascism, Statee Socialism, or Communism...."

Printed poem which begins, "What shall we do for coal?/Cry the witles multitude ovewr the harvest of their own folly/shivering like autumn leaves in the blighting blasts...."