The Profits of Religion, Fifth EditionSinclair, Upton
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The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition
Sinclair, Upton
Christianity -- Controversial literature
Tell me, you four hundred, where did you get it? Who gave it
to you? Your grandfather, you say? Your father? Can you go
all the way back and show there is no flaw anywhere in your
title? I tell you that the beginning and the root of your
wealth is necessarily in injustice. And why? Because Nature
did not make this man rich and that man poor from the start.
Nature does not intend for one man to have capital and
another to be a wage-slave. Nature made the earth to be
cultivated by all. The idea we Anarchists have of the rich
is of highwaymen, standing in the street and robbing every
one that passes.
Or take "Big Bill" Haywood, chief of the I.W.W. Hear what he has to
say in a pamphlet addressed to the harvest-hands he is seeking to
organize:
How much farther do you plutes expect to go with your
grabbing? Do you want to be the only people left on earth?
Why else do you drive out the workers from all share in
Nature, and claim everything for yourselves? The earth was
made for all, rich and poor alike; where do you get your
title deeds to it? Nature gave everything for all men to use
alike; it is only your robbery which makes your so-called
"ownership". Capital has no rights. The land belongs to
Nature, and we are all Nature's sons.
Or take Eugene V. Debs, three times candidate of the Socialist Party
for President. I quote from one of his pamphlets:
The propertied classes are like people who go into a public
theatre and refuse to let anyone else come in, treating as
private property what is meant for social use. If each man
would take only what he needs, and leave the balance to
those who have nothing, there would be no rich and no poor.
The rich man is a thief.
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