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Let's Talk About The Pullman Strike, Knob-Gobblers

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

Capitalism Off the Brain

In an Atlantic article, George Frederick Parsons rants about how capitalists have a right to expect that profits increase forever. He says workers should stop organizing for more money and instead invest it all into their own businesses. The author died in 1893; his obituary blamed his death on the fact that he hadn't lifted enough.

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