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The Iron Heel

CHAPTER IX
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Where does the power lie, gentlemen ?" "From your own figures, we of the middle class are more powerful than labor," Mr.Asmunsen remarked.
"Calling us weak does not make you stronger in the face of the strength of the Plutocracy," Ernest retorted.

"And furthermore, I'm not done with you.

There is a greater strength than wealth, and it is greater because it cannot be taken away.

Our strength, the strength of the proletariat, is in our muscles, in our hands to cast ballots, in our fingers to pull triggers.

This strength we cannot be stripped of.


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