Henry Demarest Lloyd (May 1, 1847 - September 28, 1903) on Workers and Self-Management(published by RevoltSource) |
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19th-century American Progressive Political Activist, Pioneer Muckraking Journalist, and Author of Expos?s of the Standard Oil Company
: A 19th-century American progressive political activist and pioneer muckraking journalist. He is best remembered for his expos?s of the Standard Oil Company, which were written before Ida M. Tarbell's series for McClure's Magazine. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
Quote #10 on Economic Struggle Quotes >> Workers and Self-Management
“The same human nature is at work now as always. The same everlasting passion for tyranny and the same everlasting passion for liberty still in the same everlasting conflict. To-day the struggle is a step higher than one hundred years before. Then it was as to the right of men as men to a voice in the management of that industry we call government,-dealer in forts, coinage, courts, harbors, postage stamps. Now it is the right of men as men to a voice in any other industry which has become of supreme social importance, for the right of the people to be free from taxation without representation in any business which has so great a power over us that it governs us, to have a voice in any industry so great that those who own it own us, to a vote in any property so great that it is a government, whether it be the control of the railroads or the light of the cities, or the supply of the necessaries of life, like coal, oil, salt, steel, or anything else.”
Source: "The Lords of Industry," by Henry Demarest Lloyd, 1910, chapter 7. Chapter 9.
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