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►and the old text are sadly changed, ail over our public channels of opinion. How can we account for this fact?We call special attention to the following :“We became a nation of believers in the possibility of universal capitalism. No one seemed to entertain fora moment the thought: who i9 to furnish half-paid labor, if all are to be capitalists? Whence, if all want to be robbers under the disguise of law, are the robbed to come? If there are no wages-slaves, how is any more profit possible? And even the nearly four years of commercial crisis all over the civilized world have not yet, to any great extent, uprooted that capitalist superstition that everybody may, through diligence and economy, become an independent, well-to-do person, an appropriator of the partly-paid labor-fruit of others. Our press,our pulpits, our popular orators are so utterly ignorant of real politicaleconomy, that, whenever an Astor, Stewart, Vanderbilt or Stevens dies, they preach the gospel that everyyoung man may, by following their shining example, become a millionaire. This superstition dies hard, and this reason alone sufficiently accounts for the slow progress of our new scientific and practical efforts at organizing a labor party on just principles.”This superstition “dies hard” because it is not a mere “capitalist superstition.” It has been as powerful among the masses, among the laborers, as with any other class. It ia self-evident folly, but it is cherished by nine men out of ten. We have seen its counterpart, in the generally superstitious.
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Minneapolis Free Flag
Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
Thu, Jun 21, 1877
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