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Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays, Paperback / softback Book

Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays Paperback / softback

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I propose, subject to the patience of the reader, to devote two or three articles to prophecy.

Like all healthy-minded prophets, sacred and profane, I can only prophesy when I am in a rage and think things look ugly for everybody. And like all healthy-minded prophets, I prophesy in the hope that my prophecy may not come true.

For the prediction made by the true soothsayer is like the warning given by a good doctor. And the doctor has really triumphed when the patient he condemned to death has revived to life.

The threat is justified at the very moment when it is falsified.

Now I have said again and again (and I shall continue to say again and again on all the most inappropriate occasions) that we must hit Capitalism, and hit it hard, for the plain and definite reason that it is growing stronger.

Most of the excuses which serve the capitalists as masks are, of course, the excuses of hypocrites.

They lie when they claim philanthropy; they no more feel any particular love of men than Albu felt an affection for Chinamen.

They lie when they say they have reached their position through their own organising ability.

They generally have to pay men to organise the mine, exactly as they pay men to go down it.

They often lie about the present wealth, as they generally lie about their past poverty.

But when they say that they are going in for a "constructive social policy," they do not lie.

They really are going in for a constructive social policy. And we must go in for an equally destructive social policy; and destroy, while it is still half-constructed, the accursed thing which they construct.

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