d themselves in poverty. Anyone who lied and cheated was wealthy. This was the way a Capitalistic society was presented in the book. This was shown when Jurgis left Packingtown. He was living selfishly and he was robbing and bribing. It was only during these times that he was successful. The bosses (foremen) were also examples of this. They fired head union members, and if they ever got in trouble for doing this, they would simply give gifts to make people keep quiet. The police also lived off of gifts. It showed that a hard worker was not rewarded, and was disposed of when he/she became a burden. Toward the end of the book, Upton Sinclair shows the reader how to solve Capitalisms problems: change it into Socialism. In the book, all the Socialists knew about the Socialist Revolution: when the entire planet would become Socialist. Not once does the book mention that Socialism could ever fail. It even claimed that Socialists would control the country by the early nineteen hundreds. All Socialist are described similar by a simply ideology:First, that a Socialist believes in the common ownership and democratic management of the means of producing the necessities of life; and, second, that a socialist believes that the means by which this is to be brought about is the class-conscious political organization of wage-earners (page 330).The Socialists hated the idea of competition. It was competition, and Capitalism that made everything corrupt. Capitalism was the source of all evils, and working right along with it was the Beef Trust. Just about everyone in Packingtown worked for the Beef Trust, and therefore just about everyone in Packingtown was destroyed by it. [The Beef Trust] was a monster devouring with a thousand mouths, trampling with a thousand hoofs; it was the Great Butcher it was the spirit of Capitalism made flesh In the national capital it had power to falsify government reports; it violated the rebate law...
