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[Unknown witness at Goncourt's hearing] What is it to me that there should be monuments, operas, café-concerts, where I have never set foot because I had no money?
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["Ekaterine"] I started to understand the reality that exists here in Oaxaca, that many people and many communities have been forgotten by the government. I started visiting the communities. There are serious health problems and people who have to travel five or six hours to the nearest hospital, which is extremely expensive. There are children who go to school without breakfast, which makes them do poorly in school. When I started to see the situation, it made me feel like going out into the streets to defend their rights, to stand up for the people who really are forgotten. The government acts as if these people didn't exist, as if they weren't a part of us.
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[Anonymous Agronomist from the Amazon] ...a production model derived from vast inequalities was probably going to reproduce inequality.
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...there is an understanding among all employers, and all of them resemble one another. All are almost equally irritating, unjust, and harsh.
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...wealth is quite exclusive, and the tendency is for it to become more so each day, as it becomes concentrated into an ever shrinking number of hands, shunning the lower echelons of the middle class and the petite bourgeoisie, depressing them into the proletariat, so that the growth of this wealth is the direct cause behind the growing misery of the laboring masses.
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Neoliberal doctrines, whatever one thinks of them, undermine education and health, increase inequality, and reduce labor's share of income; that much is not seriously in doubt.
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Concentration of communications in any hands (particularly foreign hands) raises some rather serious questions about meaningful democracy. Similar questions arise about concentration of finance, which undermines popular involvement in social and economic planning. Control over food raises even more serious questions, in this case about survival.
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The decisions reached by the directors of GE affect the general society substantially, but citizens play no role in them, as a matter of principle.
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While he was away Creaghe's Grower Street landlady sent the "bum-baliffs" around. Creaghe was a wiser man for his previous experience. He signed a paper authority for the 'bum' to take his furniture within five days, if necessary. Shortly afterwards, Creaghe removed the furniture to prevent seizure. They issued a summons on Creaghe which he chose to ignore, apart from writing a letter to the Sheffield Telegraph.[...]
Muir Wilson, his landlady's solicitor, had issued a summons calling on Creaghe to appear in the Town Hall. The charge was that of removing his furniture before the 'bums' could seize it! Creaghe commented, "I shall consider it an honor whenever I am brought up for some big stealing or plundering of the rich but -- Holy Moses! -- stealing my own furniture!"
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The youth, of course, is an innovator by the fact of his birth. There he stands, newly born on the planet, a universal beggar, with all the reason of things, one would say, on his side. In his first consideration how to feed, clothe, and warm himself, he is met by warnings on every hand, that this thing and that thing have owners, and he must go elsewhere.
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...to say that a poor man is as free as a rich man to attend the opera conveys very little.
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The logic of facts [of economics] may come home with hunger and misery and perhaps blood-shed, and certainly passionate class-hatred...
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...the favored few earn more and live better, while many others, who could make a greater contribution or would at least do as well and would gladly work for lower salaries, cannot find jobs.
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A few rich people own the lands and machines. The many labor and have nothing. This every worker knows.
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We get a better clue to actual behavior if we think of wages as being determined by an interplay between social and economic factors, instead of being based on economic factors -- and crude economic factors at that -- alone.
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Wages vary inversely as profits; or wages rise when profits fall, and profits rise when wages fall; and it is therefore profits, or the capitalist's share of the national produce, which is opposed to wages, or the share of the laborer.
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The opulent are, by this policy, interested in the being at least, though not in the well-being of the poor; and enrich themselves, by increasing the number and industry of those who are subjected to them.
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A poor young man coming to New York, bent upon making his fortune, begins to talk about the old fogies; holds in contempt many of the rules and regulations of the trade; is loud in his denunciation of monopoly; wants competition; shouts for fair play, and is a real democrat. But let him succeed; let him have a palace in Fifth Avenue, with his monogram on spoons and coaches; then, instead of shouting for liberty, he will call for more police. He will then say: "We want protection; the rabble must be put down." We have an aristocracy of wealth.
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Can you be so sure that we do not want to work? It is more a case of our being denied work.
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It proved that there really are two classes in our modern society; on one side, the man who works and yields up to the monopolists of property more than half of what he produces and yet lightly passes over the wrong done him by his masters; on the other, the idler, the spoiler, hating his slave, ready to kill him like game, animated by the most savage instincts as soon as he is menaced in his possession.
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...the wage system, the modern form of ancient serfdom...
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...all that is necessary for production -- the land, the mines, the highways, machinery, food, shelter, education, knowledge -- all have been seized by the few in the course of that long story of robbery, enforced migration and wars, of ignorance and oppression...
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The wealth and gold of antiquity formed the capitalist embryo out of which capital itself was later developed.
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The passion for enslaving, forbidden by a squeamish civilization to buy men, finds a vent in capturing the raw material of human life.
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...working men and women from one end of the United States to the other question whether it is better to work for wages on which they cannot live, or not to work at all.
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...we explain the meaning of the opposition as one of Capital versus Labor, in which the capitalists, with their huge capital already invested in production and transit, and deriving therefrom a surplus-value far in excess of the wages earned by the workers, have every possible advantage when it comes to a real, deadly struggle...
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...some have inherited the land and all social wealth, while the mass of the people, disinherited in all respects, is exploited and oppressed by a small possessing class.
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...though we cannot possibly expect to exclude riches and poverty from society, yet if we could find out a mode of government by which the numbers in the extreme regions would be lessened and the numbers in the middle regions increased, it would be undoubtedly our duty to adopt it.
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You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population.
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Neoliberal democracy... Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless.
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The richer a man is the wider is his choice of neighborhood.
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In all that contributes in trivial ways to his ultimate satisfaction, the things at which modern business excels, new models of cars and transistors, prepared foodstuffs and plastic objets d'art, electric tooth-brushes and an increasing range of push-button gadgets, man has ample choice. In all that destroys his enjoyment of life, he has none.
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Since change today is faster and more thorough than it was, say, a generation ago, and a generation hence will be faster yet, every one of us, manager, workman or scientist, lives closer to the brink of obsolescence.
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...a nation happy, which cannot be obtained so long as there is property: for when every man draws to himself all that he can compass, by one title or another, it must needs follow, that how plentiful soever a nation may be, yet a few dividing the wealth of it among themselves, the rest must fall into indigence.
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Civilization, therefore, or that which is so-called, has operated two ways: to make one part of society more affluent, and the other more wretched, than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.
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Certainly, trade union action is class struggle. There is a class antagonism in capitalism -- capitalists and workers have opposing interests. Not only on the question of conservation of capitalism, but also within capitalism itself, with regard to the division of the total product. The capitalists attempt to increase their profits, the surplus value, as much as possible, by cutting down wages and increasing the hours or the intensity of labor. On the other hand, the workers attempt to increase their wages and to shorten their hours of work.
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This book was written so that we may take heed and remold one story: I am certain that when enough of us become aware of how we are being exploited by the economic engine that creates an insatiable appetite for the world's resources, and results in systems that foster slavery, we will no longer tolerate it. We will reassess our role in the world where a few swim in riches and the majority drown in poverty, pollution, and violence. We will commit ourselves to navigating a course toward compassion, democracy, and social justice for all.
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The daily practice of all annuls the goals of each. But the workers did not know that their situation was a product of their own daily behavior; their own activities were not transparent to them. To the workers it seemed that low wages were simply a natural part of life, like illness and death, and that falling wages were a natural catastrophe, like a flood or a hard winter.
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...a few whose greed for power has turned mankind into classes of masters and slaves...
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"Dwell in the land, and verily thou shall be fed?" Does not the Honorable Member who has affixed this motto to his work, assume, that the fund out of which the laborer is to be fed is practically inexhaustible? And can words more strongly imply that his sufferings arise from the injustice of his superiors?
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There is no department of political economy which ought not to be judged in its relation to the happiness of the people in general; and a system of social order is always bad when the greater part of the population suffers under it.
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In a magnificent country, which nature has enriched with all her gifts; which art has adorned with all its luxury; which annually gives forth a most abundant harvest -- the numerous class that produce the fruits of the ground never taste the corn which is reaped or the wine which is pressed, by their labor, and struggle continually with famine.
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There are callings, in fine, which public opinion brands with infamy; there are some which deserve this condemnation. Yet the ranks are always full; and a miserable wage, scarce sufficient for existence, induces men, to undergo so many evils. The reason is, society does not leave them any choice; they are compelled to be contented with this cruel lot or not to live. The duty of governments to succor so much wretchedness cannot be doubtful, for they are almost always the cause of this wretched population's being created; but, at the same time they ought not to forget that it is their part to save from indigence the miserable creatures already in existence.
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The time has come when the injustice, irrationality, and cruelty of the ownership of land by those who do not work it has become as obvious as fifty years ago were obvious the injustice, irrationality, and cruelty of the ownership of serfs.
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Or fame or life,
Which do you hold more dear?
Or life or wealth,
To which would you adhere?
Keep life and lose those other things;
Keep them and lose your life:--which brings
Sorrow and pain more near?
Thus we may see,
Who cleaves to fame
Rejects what is more great;
Who loves large stores
Gives up the richer state.
Who is content
Needs fear no shame.
Who knows to stop
Incurs no blame.
From danger free
Long live shall he.
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As an industrial hierarchy increases the distance between the workers and management, the human being who is a worker becomes a digit in a vast series to the man at the top. Likewise, the administrator ceases to be a man and becomes a symbol of economic authority to the worker.
Chronology :
April 11, 2020 : Exclusion -- Added.
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