there were a number of "robber baron" type capitalists in the late 19th & early 20th cent. here in America.

Um- ya mean, like Ken Lay, the Waltons, Dick Cheney & other U.S. Billionaires?

...The need to be in control & to brook NO difference of opinion, thought, or understanding--along with the belief that other people are not quite as human or worthy of consideration as one's self--makes for some serious disregard of consequences of violent confrontation--or the belief that the turmoil, pain, mayhem, death engendered are small price to pay for the establishment of the kind of order the "boss" wants.

Um- kinda sounds like you're describing the BuShites & the Eye-Rack War.

Interesting how contemporary many of Woody's songs can be, no?.