Seminar: “Ism’s” in American Politics 46.310.201
Assignment 4: Capitalism and Anti-Capitalism in the 20th Century
Due via e-mail on 10/3/2012. Please print a copy and bring it to class on 10/4/12.
Note: These questions are strictly designed to ensure that you are keeping up with the readings. Consequently, your answers need not include analysis or background information.
Instructions: Save document to your hard drive, then open in Microsoft Word. Type in answers, proofread, run spell check, then e-mail a copy to .
Don’t forget to use your own words and answer in complete sentences.
Your Name:
1.In his speech on the “New Nationalism,” Theodore Roosevelt quoted from Abraham Lincoln:
"______is prior to, and independent of, ______. Capital is only the ______of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the ______."
"Capital has its ______, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights. . . . Nor should this lead to a ___ upon the owners of property. Property is the ______of labor; . . . property is ______; is a ______in the world."
2.From the “New Nationalism:”
The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the ______; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must ______which they have called into being.
There can be no effective control of corporations while their ______remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done.
3.In accepting the nomination of the Socialist Party in the presidential election of 1912, Eugene Debs declared:
The world’s workers have always been and still are the world’s ______. They have ______all the burdens of the race and _____ all the monuments along the track of civilization; they have ______all the world’s wealth and ______all the world’s governments. They have conquered all things but their own ______. They are still the ______in every nation on earth and the chief function of every ______is to keep them at the mercy of their ______.
4.In her essay on “Anarchy,” Emma Goldman denounced the dehumanizing consequences of capitalist production:
Still more fatalis the crime of turning the producer into a ______, with less ______than his master of steel and iron. Man is being robbed not merely of the ______, but of the power of ______, of originality, and the interest in, or desire for, the things ______.
Real wealth consists in things of ______, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in. But if man is doomed to wind ______for thirty years of his life, there can be no talk of wealth. What he gives to the world is only ______, reflecting a dull and hideous existence,—too weak to ______, too cowardly to ___. Strange to say, there are people who extol this deadening method of centralized production as the proudest achievement of our age. They fail utterly to realize that if we are to continue in ______, our slavery is more complete than was our bondage to the King. They do not want to know that centralization is not only the deathknell of ______, but also of ______and ______, of ___ and ______, all these being impossible in a clocklike, mechanical atmosphere.
5.In 1933, in his first inaugural address, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared:
______is at our doorstep, but a generous ___ of it languishes in the very sight of the ______. Primarily this is because rulers of the ______of mankind's goods ______through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their ______, and have ______. Practices of the unscrupulous ______stand indicted in the court of public opinion, ______by the hearts and minds of men.
6.According to Roosevelt,
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of ______; it lies in the ___ of achievement, in the _____ of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of ______no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent ______. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that ______is not to be ministered unto but to ______to ourselves and to our fellow men.
Recognition of the falsity of ______as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of ______and personal ______; and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish ______. Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on ______, on honor, on the sacredness of ______, on faithful protection, on ______; without them it cannot live.
7.During his first one hundred days in office, FDR instituted a variety of programs and spearheaded new regulations that were designed to lift the country out of the Great Depression. In your own words, summarize a fewof the most important steps that Roosevelt took to revive the U.S. economy.
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