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Quotes

• “The capitalist cheapens their wages; they compete with and underbid each other, for employed they must be on any terms. This war of the rich with the poor and the poor with one another, is the morality which political economy inculcates.”
• “Slavery relieves our slaves of these cares altogether, and slavery is a form, and the very best form, of socialism.”
• “No association, no efficient combination of labor can be effected till men give up their liberty of action and subject themselves to a common despotic head or ruler. This is slavery, and towards this socialism is moving.”
• “Free trade or political economy is the science of free society, and socialism is the science of slavery.”
• “The greatest of all communists, if communist he be, Proudhon, has also seen and exposed this tendency of socialism to slavery. He is a thorough-going enemy of modern free society; call property a thief; and would, he says, establish anarchy in place of government.”
• “What a glorious thing to man is slavery, when want, misfortune, old age, debility and sickness overtake him.”

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