Say, Tipper, do you suppose someone might try to win an argument a century from now by presenting an evangelical painting of a shirtless, verile, normally colored Donald Trump flexing ripped biceps, pecs and abs?
How about some context for that cartoon? Who drew it? Who published it? For all we know the artist thought that
any sort of regulation of commerce was Marxist. But as it stands, a political cartoon doesn't prove your claim.
The Rockefellers aren't interested in the "redistribution of wealth" part. They're interested in the consolidation of wealth and control part.
Without the redistribution part, it ain't communism. When people just accumulate wealth and keep it, that's called capitalism.
The trusts were formed because Rockefeller was challenged by the Supreme Court of the US under the Sherman Anti-Trust act of 1890, and it was becoming obvious to everyone that his dynasty was becoming problematic for the United States.
No, trusts were formed, and still are formed, so that different companies producing the same goods and services can avoid market competition. If consumers can choose, then companies will try to earn their business by offering a more attractive product, usually through lower price and/or better quality. Better quality increases production costs.
If the companies agree not to compete, by, say, dividing the market into territories, or price fixing, then they can charge a lot more money for goods and services that are less expensive to produce.
Hence Nelson Rockefeller's quote: "The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.”
Nelson Rockefeller was talking about distributing his wealth in ways that would protect it from things like lawsuits or taxes. He was talking about things like setting up a family trust partnership in an offshore tax haven. That's how rich people keep the government from taxing them. The fact that you think Nelson Rockefeller was talking about some sort communist economic plan just shows how truly ignorant of this subject you are.
