“Since the financial aristocracy make the laws, is at the head of the administration of the state, has command of all the organised public authorities, dominates public opinion through the actual state of affairs and through the press, the same prostitution, the same shameless cheating, the same mania to get rich was repeated in every sphere, from Wall Street to the meanest suburbs to get rich not by production, but by pocketing the already available wealth of others.
A slightly modified quote: Sound like modern-day America? Well, it's Karl Marx' critique of France in 1848, just pre-revolution
or as Spinoza put it: Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
or as Spinoza put it: Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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