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Alexander Berkman: What is Communist Anarchism? - The Trade Union

Audible Anarchism

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The Identity of Interests Swindle Is a Mean of Keeping Up the System

The workers would soon see through the whole capital scheme of graft, deceit and robbery. They would do as people had done before various times: As soon as they understood that they were slaves, they destroyed slavery. Later on, when they realized they were serfs, they did away with serfdom. You see then that it is in the interests of capital to keep the workers from understanding that they are wage slaves. But even labor leaders themselves are interested in keeping up late wage slavery," he says.

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