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Their wordsHere we find we are in some trouble, for the supreme form of speech in our time is not words but money, both in legal doctrine and in fact of order, with our media controlled and manipulated by an obscenely wealthy few who have gobbled up platforms and papers and perverted them to their own aims, aims that seem very much in favor of war, for war has ever been the commander of wealth.
Their wordsHow can the investor class simultaneously threaten us with no work, and, at the same time, threaten us with too much?
Their wordsThe prestige and power that accompany both rank and great wealth-wealth which in our own day has grown so large as to be incomprehensible-also engender an instinct to possession and to the violent and disproportionate defense of that wealth.
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