Eh! miserable
sorceress, if you know the future, you know who I am and what I
want; why do you ask me to tell you?
Likewise I will answer the democrats: If you know the use that
you should make of power, and if you know how power should be
organized, you possess economic science. Now, if you possess
economic science, if you have the key of its contradictions, if
you are in a position to organize labor, if you have studied the
laws of exchange, you have no need of the capital of the nation
or of public force. From this day forth you are more potent than
money, stronger than power. For, since the laborers are with
you, you are by that fact alone masters of production; you hold
commerce, manufactures, and agriculture enchained; you have the
entire social capital at your disposition; you have full control
of taxation; you block the wheels of power, and you trample
monopoly under foot. What other initiative, what greater
authority, do you ask? What prevents you from applying your
theories?
Surely not political economy, although generally followed and
accredited: for, everything in political economy having a true
side and a false side, your only problem is to combine the
economic elements in such a way that their total shall no longer
present a contradiction.
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