"It’s mine. I built it. You bump it down – I’ll be in the window with a rifle. You even come too close and I’ll pot you like a rabbit."
"It’s not me. There’s nothing I can do. I’ll lose my job if I don’t do it. And look – suppose you kill me? They’ll just hang you, but long before you’re hung there’ll be another guy on the tractor, and he’ll bump the house down. You’re not killing the right guy."
"That’s so," the tenant said. "Who gave you orders? I’ll go after him. He’s the one to kill."
"You’re wrong. He got his orders from the bank. The bank told him, ‘Clear those people out or it’s your job.’"
"Well, there’s a president of the bank. There’s a board of directors. I’ll fill up the magazine of the rifle and go into the bank."
The driver said, "Fellow was telling me the bank gets orders from the East. The orders were, ‘Make the land show profit or we’ll close you up.’"
"But where does it stop? Who can we shoot? I don’t aim to starve to death before I kill the man that’s starving me."
"I don’t know. Maybe there’s nobody to shoot. Maybe the thing isn’t men at all."

– John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 5. This passage is a conversation between an evicted tenant farmer and tractor driver, hired to bulldoze the tenant’s land. It’s revealing and shows the destructive power of capitalism. It also portrays the hopelessness and powerlessness of the tenant farmer in fighting the capitalist banking system. In desperation, the tenant says that before he starves to death, he wants to kill the man who is starving him. Ironically many tenants will die trying to achieve this goal. The tenant want to fight the bank. But the bank is a giant faceless corporation that is too big to fight, as the tractor driver points out.