Even so committed an anti-Communist (and non-Marxist) as Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. took
class conflict as self - evident, and in The Vital Center (1949) and elsewhere he
depicted the central theme of American politics as the
struggle for power between the business community and all other social groups.
With a focus on Ludwig's younger years, Tezuka
depicts what life was like for a young,
struggling artist in a time when those in a higher social
class used and abused those of lower
class.