Word: capitalist
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...chief element of socialistic creeds is economic freedom or emancipation of labor, which is the desire to have wages independent of management. By offering the system in which the state shall control all industry, socialists do away with the capitalist, but substitute for him the state as a directing force. This move is merely sentimental, and will disappear after having run its course...
...speech was an arraignment of the capitalist class for its mismanagement of society. The cave man, he said, had the crudest implements and lived under constant danger from enemies yet could get enough food to maintain himself without working all the time. The modern man, however, removed from hostile environment in a state of society which by the aid of machinery enormously multiplies production, cannot, even by working incessantly, get enough to eat, and must live in a state of wretchedness which no cave man ever knew. Ten million people in the United States are unable to obtain enough food...
...that with plenty for all such conditions exist? It is because the capitalist class, standing in the avenues to work refuses to let, the workingman pass, and wastes that which would fed and shelter the poor. This criminal mismanagement is bringing on the uprising of the working class, the Revolution...
...study of socialism and of his investigations of the condition of the poor. His subject tonight will include a definition of social revolution, with an estimate of the strength of the "revolutionists" throughout the world, and, under the topic "Why the Revolution Must Come," an arraignment of the capitalist class for their mismanagement of society...