I was re-reading "The Perils of Prosperity" by Leuchtenburg

[ashling]

preparing a lecture on that period ....

OK, I was re "skimming" the pp ...

wait, that doesn't sound right either ...

anyway, I came across a quote that I had momentarily become jammed in my memory:

Who said this?

"Do you want to know what causes war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars."

"Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth."

(and if you google it you have already lost - you know who you are)

[HarveyDarkey]

1. I would guess Howard Zinn

Now I'll Google it to see if I'm correct.

[ashling]

2. Wrong - bzzzt-

pre Zinn

[HarveyDarkey]

3. Found that out after the Google search

surprised the hell out of me who it was.

[Ron Obvious]

4. Henry Ford?

I have a funny feeling it's Henry Ford based on nothing more than that the answer is supposed to be surprising and that he believed in paying his workers enough to afford his cars. Sounds like his style of speaking too.

If I'm wrong, I'm guessing it's from that era anyway.

Now I'm off to google it.

[ashling]

5. Dig! Ding! Ding!

Henry the Ford

[Ron Obvious]

6. Yay!

I can't remember who pointed it out now, but in America we have gone from an era where the largest employer (Ford) paid its employees high wages so that they afford its products to an era in which the largest employer (Walmart) pays its employees so little that they can only afford to buy its products.

[ashling]

7. Sad isn't it?

I have used that in my political science classes, but not worded so well.