If the masters want blood let them cut their own throats.
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Footnote 301:
_Social Control_, pp. 376–79. Italics mine. G. R. K.
Footnote 302:
_General Sociology_, p. 233.
Footnote 303:
_Dynamic Sociology_, Vol. I., p. 582. Italics mine. G. R. K.
Footnote 304:
See _The Theory of the State_, Bk II., Chs. 17, 18.
Footnote 305:
_Introduction to Sociology_, pp. 132–36.
Footnote 306:
See Chapter Three, The Explanation.
Footnote 307:
“Classes differ in readiness to twist social control to their own
advantage.... In general, the more distinct, knit together, and
self-conscious the influential minority, the more likely is social
control to be colored with class selfishness.”—Professor E. A. Ross,
Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, _Social Control_, p.
86.
Footnote 308:
See Chapter Eleven for suggestions on the origin of large-scale
parasitic aggression; and on the origin and history of the working
class and of the class-labor form of society.
Footnote 309:
See _Dynamic Sociology_, Vol. I., pp. 581–97; _Psychic Factors in
Civilization_, Chapter 24.
Note carefully the quotation on methods of social parasites at the
head of the present chapter from Dr. Ross’s _Social Control_.
Professor Ross is generally recognized as one of the most profound and
brilliant writers on Sociology.
It is important to consider, too, that, as a Socialist, Dr. Franklin
H. Giddings, Head of Department of Sociology in Columbia University,
recognizes the capitalist class’s parasitic relation to society. Dr.
Giddings is recognized in all the universities of the world as having
few equals as a sociologist.
The social parasites of the world will never forgive the learned
Socialist, Dr. Thorstein Veblen, recently of the University of
Chicago, for writing his bold and astonishing book, _The Theory of the
Leisure Class_. The screaming mockeries and glittering pretensions of
the “princely-fortune” parasites of capitalism are mercilessly
explained by him.
It is noteworthy too that the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal
of Sociology, and Head of the Department of Sociology in the
University of Chicago, Dr. Albion W. Small, has for many years been
calling attention, in lectures, to the parasitic nature of _one_ of
the forms of capitalist income, thus: “There is no moral justification
for the taking of interest incomes.” In his _General Sociology_, pp.
268–69, Dr. Small says: “In the first place, capital produces nothing.
It earns nothing.” See also his suggestions on social parasites on
page 266, where he is clearly in considerable degree in agreement with
Dr. Ward.
Gustavus Myers’ _History of Great American Fortunes_ is here again
commended as an extraordinary record of remarkable social parasitism
in American history.
Footnote 310:
See _Twenty-Eight Years in Wall Street_, p. 388; by Henry Clews, a
very well known banker of Wall Street.
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