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> > Jeesh, I knew that Chris. Why do you assume I didn't?
> > The Fat Kapitalist with Top Hat is Kitsch, was a standard caricature
>in
> > cartoons by such as Robert Minor in The Masses. The CPUSA aligned New
> > Masses continued that tradition later. (I have some back issues, one
>with
> > an ad for the John Hammond organized concert @ at Canegie Hall, "From
> > Spirituals to Swing, " that would have included Robert Johnson.)
--- Maybe it's kitsch today. It wasn't in Russia in the Civil War. The Fat Capitalist with the Hat was a standard trope in 19th century political caricature and elsewhere. There are lots of variants on the theme (not necessarily fat) in Dickens.
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