Diego Rivera, a devote communist, hired by the Rockefellers to paint a mural in the new Radio City Building in mid town Manhattan. Why would such successful capitalists as the Rockefellers hire Diego Rivera, knowing full well his political agenda in advancing the communist movement? Why would Diego Rivera, a man who hated everything the capitalist Rockefellers stood for, agree to paint the mural in a newly built building that stood for everything capitalism is …
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…a man of communist values, tricked into being the one true thing he hated his whole life, a capitalist. Works Cited Hellman, Geoffrey T. Enfant Terrible. The New Yorker 20 May 1933:21-24. Kaye, Jeffrey. A NewsHour with Jim Lehrer June 15, 1999 Le Bland, Oscar. Diego Rivera and Rockefeller: The Assasination of an Artistic Work. Perspectives 2002 p. 555 Reich, Cary. "Ventures and Misadventures," The Life of Nelson Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer 1908-1958. (New York: Doubleday, 1996). http://www.dictionary.com