A Long Way from Revolt?
Eberhard Arnold
Even the blind can see that economic progress entails the oppression
and murder of thousands ? that big business rules by sheer power and
deceit...
A capitalistic society can be maintained only by lies. But we are a long
way
from revolt. Most pious and even many working people think, ?Rich and poor
have to be.? They ignore the fact that it is impossible to amass any kind
of
fortune without cheating, without depriving and hurting others and
destroying
their lives. They fail to realize that, concentrated in a few hands, big
business
can steer hundreds of thousands toward certain ruin through unemployment.
Why do these facts remain hidden from us? Only because we ourselves are
also under the rule of the god who blinds us, which is mammon.
Perhaps this is why Paris is burning.
http://www.bruderhof.com/articles/jca/paris-riots.htm
Source: E. A., public lecture, 1923
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