Six years ago I brought out this frightful contradiction: why has
it not been thundered through the press? Why have no teachers of
renown warned public opinion? Why have not those who demand
political rights for the workingman proclaimed that he is robbed?
Why have the economists kept silent? Why?
Our revolutionary democracy is so noisy only because it fears
revolutions: but, by ignoring the danger which it dares not look
in the face, it succeeds only in increasing it. "We resemble,"
says M. Blanqui, "firemen who increase the quantity of steam at
the same time that they place weights on the safety-valve."
Victims of monopoly, console yourselves! If your tormentors will
not listen, it is because Providence has resolved to strike them:
Non audierunt, says the Bible, quia Deus volebat occidere eos.
Sale being unable to fulfil the conditions of monopoly,
merchandise accumulates; labor has produced in a year what its
wages will not allow it to consume in less than fifteen months:
hence it must remain idle one-fourth of the year.
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