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"In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases."
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"Rather than evoke our sympathy, our familiarity with the lives of the black poor has bred spasms of fear and outright contempt. But mostly it's bred indifference."
"The problem is that rich are getting richer by not giving and poor and getting poorer by not receiving."
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"Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses."
"Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society."
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"The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together."
"You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so: that is just what we intend."
"But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade."
"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force."
"Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself."
"The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future."
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