Saturday, June 26, 2010

Plutocracy or self-government

Where you get a country split, between men who live without working, on the labor
of others, and great masses who labor when they get a chance
and get only part of the product of their work, when you get
that kind of a fundamental economic division you have
to build classes and that country will never again be at peace
until that economic division is ironed out. There are two
things before us: one to be a plutocracy where wealth rules
absolutely, and where men and women are stepped on like the
dirt of the street; and the other is to set up self-government
economic life where men and women handle their own economic
affairs just as now they try to handle their own political
affairs.

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