Marxist ideology: in this 1896 cartoon, labor says that socialism is inevitable in spite of the whitewashing efforts of capitalists, politicians, and the "capitalist press."
Extreme wealth became a liability during the Republican primary campaign in 2012, but a super-rich candidate was still selected.
Comments: Cartoon by Nick Anderson
This 1896 political cartoon depicts the coal trust as a wealthy man in a top hat stealing money from an impoverished mother. Speech maligning rich corporations was robust at the turn of the century.
Source: Oakland Museum of California
"Pyramid of Capitalist System": illustration from a 1911 newspaper published by the Industrial Workers of the World
Source: Public domain
"If McKinley Were Elected": Mark Hanna runs a cabinet meeting on labor with business executives while a labor representative knocks at the door.
A 1942 political cartoon by Dr. Seuss about income tax loopholes for the wealthy
Source: UC San Diego
Open battle between striking teamsters armed with pipes and the police in the streets of Minneapolis, June 1934
Reagan gives a televised address outlining his plans for tax reduction in 1981
Many nations in Europe experienced short-lived revolutions of the working classes in 1848, the same year Marx and Engels published The Communist Manifesto.
Source: Painting by Horace Vernet
Two girls protest child labor during a 1909 May Day parade in New York City.
FDR signs the Social Security Act in 1935. His opponents called his policies socialist.
Walter Mondale, Jimmy Carter's vice president and Ronald Reagan's opponent in the 1984 presdiential election
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, which Rutherford B. Hayes ended by sending in federal troops.
Source: Engraving by M.B. Leiser
Striking American Railway Union members confront Illinois National Guard troops in Chicago during the Pullman Strike in 1894.
Source: Public domain
Poster designed by the anti-consumerist organization Adbusters inviting people to Occupy Wall Street
Source: Adbusters
