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The Crimes of England

CHAPTER X
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In Montenegro there are no millionaires--and therefore next to no Socialists.

As to why there are no millionaires, it is a mystery, and best studied among the mysteries of the Middle Ages.

By some of the dark ingenuities of that age of priestcraft a curious thing was discovered--that if you kill every usurer, every forestaller, every adulterater, every user of false weights, every fixer of false boundaries, every land-thief, every water-thief, you afterwards discover by a strange indirect miracle, or disconnected truth from heaven, that you have no millionaires.

Without dwelling further on this dark matter, we may say that this great gap in the Montenegrin experience explains the other great gap--the lack of Socialists.

The Class-conscious Proletarian of All Lands is curiously absent from this land.


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