This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...down. Wherever my eye turns, there is the pressure of the strong upon the weak--a system of ceaseless exploitation from top to bottom. Force and cunning in control everywhere. The earth has all that all men need--forests for weak lungs, river-banks for wearied limbs, sun, air, warmth for the millions who crave to live. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...down. Wherever my eye turns, there is the pressure of the strong upon the weak--a system of ceaseless exploitation from top to bottom. Force and cunning in control everywhere. The earth has all that all men need--forests for weak lungs, river-banks for wearied limbs, sun, air, warmth for the millions who crave to live. But forest, water, air and light do the millions little good. They cannot enjoy these gifts of God. They are chained to the inexorable power of the machine, to the cruel power of the owner. There is no escape, no hope for betterment, no relief. Wherever Mammon has claimed a human heart, there is hell on earth. Nothing is conceded but what must be conceded. The simplest and most obvious claims of humanity are ruthlessly trodden under foot. Children and frail women are sacrificed to the golden Moloch. Nothing is sacred, the bonds of shame are loosed, and man sinks to a level with the beast. A shudder of horror ran through the civilized world when Marx, the great champion of the poor, set the wretchedness of the English factory population before the eyes of a blase world. Read the descriptions of Engels or any other of the writers on social conditions, of any party, realize the desperation of so many poorest of the poor, the bondage and slavery of all the hundreds of thousands that are languishing in Mammon's bonds, the brutal and unscrupulous indifference with which in the flower of their life men are thrown into the abyss through the cruel folly of our system of production, the deeds of violence daily perpetrated on our poor--and then ask yourself what weight has the complaint against the Social Democracy that it is revolutionary! Is there a more revolting piece of hypocrisy in the world than this cry? And if the Social Democracy were a hundre...
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