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Dickens on capitalism in Hard Times, by Ari Sclar
“Any capitalist . . . who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder why the sixty thousand nearest Hands...
Marx on capital, by Ari Sclar
The essential condition for the existence, and for the sway of the bourgeois class [the middle class], is the formation and augmentation...
The Carlsbad Decrees, by Ari Sclar
A special representative of the ruler of each state shall be appointed for each university…The function of this agent shall be to see to...
Examining political ideologies, by Ari Sclar
Speaker A: Government should not interfere in relations between workers and business owners Speaker B: The workers will rise up and...
Lajor Kossuth in America, by Ari Sclar
Alas! Europe can no more secure to Europe fair play. [England] only remains; but even England casts a sorrowful glance over the waves....
Louis Blanc, French socialist, on the right to work
“The question should be put thus: Is competition a means of ASSURING work to the poor? To put a question of this kind, means to solve it....
Otto von Bismark, according to historian Otto Pflanze, by Ari Sclar
His quest for power found its satisfaction [after 1871] in domestic affairs: the attacks upon the Center and Social Democratic parties,...
A document from Mary Barton, by Ari Sclar
You went down one step even from the foul area into the cellar in which a family of human beings lived. It was very dark inside. The...
Did Napoleon betray the Revolution?, by Ari Sclar
“One of the accusations often leveled against Napoleon is that he "betrayed" the higher ideals of the French Revolution, retarding...
Alexis de Tocqueville on the importance of Revolution, by Ari Sclar
No nation had ever before embarked on so resolute an attempt as that of the French in 1789 to break with the past, to make it, as it...
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