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...workers neither possess the means of production nor can they set them in motion by themselves. They are subordinate to, rather than in control of, the labor process through their subjugation to the agents of capital -- the managers who direct the labor process.
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And in this world
I saw how womanhood's fair flower had
Never space its petals to unfold. How
Childhood’s tender bud was crushed and trampled
Down in mire and filth too evil, foul, for beasts
To be partaken in. For gold I saw
The virgin sold, and motherhood was made
A mock and score.
I saw the fruit of labor
Torn away from him who toiled, to further
Swell the bursting coffers of the rich, while
Babes and mothers pined and died of want.
I saw dishonor and injustice thrive. I saw
The wicked, ignorant, greedy, and unclean,
By means of bribes and baseness, raised to seats
Of power, from whence with lashes pitiless
And keen, they scourged the hungry, naked throng
Whom first they robbed and then enslaved.
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There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people, and the few who make up the employing class have all the good things of life.
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We were amazed that "human beings" could be so bestial just for a wage.
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But when all this is said, it still remains true, at least by my sense of human dignity and the possibilities of personal development, that keeping a man all his life on monotonous, repetitive, unthinking work is positively immoral. And we do not have to do it.
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This is the secret of wealth; find the starving and destitute, pay them half a crown, and make them produce five shillings worth in the day, amass a fortune by these means, and then increase it by some lucky hit, made with the help of the State.
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This is why times are hard, employment scarce, careers closed to college graduates, in the richest country the sun shines on. You have no voice, no representation.
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The capitalists hail the free market as the hope of humanity. But their system is a total disaster. It's savage; it's outmoded; and it's no longer necessary. Something qualitatively different is possible.
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...the people do not wish to be ruled nor oppressed by the nobles, and the nobles wish to rule and oppress the people...
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...a bias in favor of the status quo enters whenever one aims to bring the economy closer to an optimum using the existing set of prices, since this set of prices itself emerged from the existing income-distribution.
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They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard and nobody notices that they are gone. And even the graves themselves soon fade back into the soil. Sometimes, out for a walk, as you break your way through the prickly pear, you notice that it is rather bumpy underfoot, and only a certain regularity in the bumps tells you that you are walking over skeletons.
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What is most necessary, and perhaps most difficult, in government, is rigid integrity in doing strict justice to all, and above all in protecting the poor against the tyranny of the rich. The greatest evil has already come about, when there are poor men to be defended, and rich men to be restrained.
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We did not regard as humanitarians, for example, these "philanthropic" persons who, having made a fortune by commercial competition, in which the depreciation of wages was a recognized method, afterwards gave back a portion of their wealth in "charity." This might, perhaps, by philanthropy, but it did not seem to be quite humanity.
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Only if he is willing to accept of the hazards of living by his faith or his wits can the man without money avoid living as a slave to the clock.
Chronology :
April 11, 2020 : Subjugation -- Added.
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