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Socialism As It Is

CHAPTER III
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The trusts are the people's great teachers, proving that destructive, selfish, unbrotherly competition is unnecessary.
"They are proving that the genius of man can free a nation or a world.

They are saying to the people: 'You work under our ORDERS.
One power can own and manage industry.' "It is hard for individual ambition just now.

But in time THE PEOPLE WILL LEARN THE LESSON AND WILL SAY TO THE TRUST OWNERS:-- "'THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

WE HAVE LEARNED THE LESSON.

WE SEE THAT IT IS POSSIBLE FOR ONE POWER TO OWN AND CONTROL ALL INDUSTRY, ALL MANUFACTURES, ALL COMMERCE, AND WE, THE PEOPLE, WILL BE THAT ONE POWER.' "Just as the individual feudal lords organized their little armies in France, and just as the French people themselves have all the armies in one--UNDER THE PEOPLE'S POWER--so the industries organized NOW by the barons of industrial feudalism, one by one, will be taken and put together by the people, UNDER THE PEOPLE'S OWNERSHIP."[37] Yet we find the _Journal_, like all the vehicles and mouthpieces of radicalism, other than those of the Socialists, unready to take the first step necessary in any conflict; namely, to decide who is the enemy.


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