Ten thousand class-conscious workers have far greater dynamic power than a hundred thousand whose only conception of unionism is to fawn at the feet of their masters and boast loudly of a great victory when the miserable wage pittance has been increased 15 cents a week
It's not the billions of people destroying the Earth it is the tiny amount of billionaires who are not only responsible but actively antagonistic to any environmentalism that threatens their profits.
the Socialist agitator has made himself an undesirable citizen, despised and persecuted, because he has the courage to tell the workers that they are ignorant and that they will remain where they are so long as they are ignorant, indifferent, and unorganized.
You are satisfied with too little. The average worker with a wage that will keep body and soul together is content, and he is told that he is blessed to be content. I am doing what little I can to incite him to discontent. Intelligent discontent is the torchbearer of civilization
It is of little use to cry out against war while we tolerate a social system that breeds war. Capitalism makes war inevitable. Capitalist nations not only exploit their workers but ruthlessly invade, plunder, and ravage one another. The profit system is responsible for it all.
The man who can calmly survey the situation in capitalist society and see its hell of horrors and remain unmoved is himself a victim of its debasing influence, and upon examination will be found to have a heart turned to adamant
If you could get along without King George, you can get along without King John Rockefeller. Political liberty without economic freedom is a myth. Political liberty is rooted in economic freedom. The man who controls and owns the means that sustain my life, owns and controls me.
Amazon should create a Twitter account like Pepito the Cat but it’s a bot pretending to be a warehouse worker who tweets “Taking a piss in the normal toilet (15:32)” and “Finished pissing in a recognizable toilet (15:34)”