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[Anonymous] Above, wealth increases; below, comfort disappears.
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[(Louis) Bonapartist Manifesto] The unfortunate die of hunger;
The worker is without work;
The cultivator is no longer able to dispose of his crops;
The merchant sells nothing;
The proprietor no longer receives his revenue;
The capitalist no longer dares to invest, lacking security.
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...a superior man helps the distressed, but does not add to the wealth of the rich.
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The people in general understand that they do these things through the harsh logic of a situation which they did not create, but which forces them to these attacks in order to make good in their struggle to live or else go down the bottomless descent into poverty, that lets Death find them in the poorhouse hospital, the city street, or the river-slime. This is the awful alternative that the workers are facing; and this is what makes the most kindly disposed human beings -- men who would go out of their way to help a wounded dog, or bring home a stray kitten and nurse it, or step aside to avoid walking on a worm -- resort to violence against their fellow men. They know, for the facts have taught them, that this is the only way to win, if they can win at all.
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This industrial government makes the real laws of the land. It determines who shall and who shall not work and how long and for what wages. That is, it has the power to say who shall live and who shall not live. It legislates as regards the amount of protection the worker shall receive while at work. It holds in its hands the powers of both the industrial and political governments. It has decreed, in order that profits may be increased, that the workers shall suffer slavery, starvation, disease and death.
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Capitalists... can grow rich only where there is an oppressed body of laborers...
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The landlord owes his riches to the poverty of the peasants, and the wealth of the capitalist comes from the same source.
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It is poverty that has made the rich.
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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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[Capitalism] does not fill the stomachs that have been pinched for months.
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Capitalism is insatiable, and the wage system compounds the evils of ancient slavery. The shops are packed full of clothing, and there are those who go about completely naked; the indifferent rich are puking up food, while others perish from hunger in their doorways. No cry is heeded...
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Consider any year that has been so unfruitful that many thousands have died of hunger; and yet if at the end of that year a survey was made of the granaries of all the rich men that have hoarded up the corn, it would be found that there was enough among them to have prevented all that consumption of men that perished in misery; and that if it had been distributed among them, none would have felt the terrible effects of that scarcity; so easy a thing would it be to supply all the necessities of life, if that blessed thing called money, which is pretended to be invented for procuring them, was not really the only thing that obstructed their being procured!
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Poverty is the symptom and slavery the disease. If we went only by appearances, we would all agree that poverty ought to be singled out as the worst feature of present-day society. The worst affliction, however, is slavery, which obliges man to lie down under poverty and prevents him from rebelling against it. The greatest of evils is not capital, which exploits the worker, enriching itself at his expense, but rather the state which keeps the worker naked and undefended, maintaining him in subjection by armed force and by imprisonment.
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...their sweat shops and their starvation wages, are the faithful companions of their dire poverty.
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...what the poor pay is lost to them for ever, and remains in, or returns to, the hands of the rich...
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We have come to think that men and women can have no development until the bread and butter question has been settled, whereas, the truth is, there is too much soul starvation among us and too little self-development along resisting class conscious lines.
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The employer is interested in keeping down the price of labor...
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The ground and his animals were all that man could force to work in concert with him; but, in society, the rich man could force the poor to work in concert with him
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The misery of nations is caused not by particular persons, but by the particular order of Society under which the people are so tied up together that they find themselves all in the power of a few men, or more often in the power of one single man: a man so perverted by his unnatural position as arbiter of the fate and lives of millions, that he is always in an unhealthy state, and always suffers more or less from a mania of self-aggrandizement, which only his exceptional position conceals from general notice.
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April 11, 2020 : Class -- Added.
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