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...every day that the capitalist system is in existence, it is perpetuated by violence; and that is the only way that it manages to hold its own.
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...the existing order of society... is founded on property or possessions, and the existing oppression of the laborer...
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If, therefore, the workingman is discontented in the present system, he will, I apprehend, be discontented with the new one unless -- and this is an important unless -- we cut down his expectations, and this, I fear, would demand sitting on him for some time with force.
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The criminal rich, -- those who appropriate the labor of others in one age by brute strength, and in another by brute wealth...
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...black bread, black with the curse of the only labor that is cursed, forced labor...
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Having come this far into the twentieth century with economists interpreting the alleged increase in our real income as 'enrichment' or, more sagaciously, as 'an extension of the area of choice', and then to be told almost daily that we have no choice; that if we are to pay our way in the world we must work harder than ever. This is enough surely to tax the credulity of any being whose judgment has not yet been swept away by torrents of economic exhortation.
[Part One, Chapter 2: The No-choice Myth, Page 14.]
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The relation between workers and capitalists is not a thing which imposed itself on society at some point in the past, once and for all. At no time did men sign a contract, or even make a verbal agreement, in which they gave up the power over their living activity, and in which they gave up the power over the living activity of all future generations on all parts of the globe.
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Unhappy indeed are those who believe they can exchange liberty for bread, for he who gives up liberty will have neither it nor bread.
Chronology :
April 11, 2020 : Coercion -- Added.
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