Consider in what way the industrial system developed upon capitalist lines. Why were a few rich men put with such ease into possession of the new methods? Why was it normal and natural in their eyes and in that of contemporary society that those who produced the new wealth with the new machinery should be proletarian and dispossessed?

The larger the unit of capital present, the easier the transaction called emission of credit. Centralized lending of this kind (which is today universal) actively promotes the absorption of the small man by the great, the reduction of small property owners to a proletarian condition.

And the men that were boys when I was a boy Shall sit and drink with me.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Property, as a general social institution, well-divided property, having disappeared and Capitalism having taken its place, you cannot reverse the process without acting against natural economic tendencies.

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.

The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.