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Mon Sep-19-11 09:58 PM
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"And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed."
- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 19
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| CaliforniaPeggy
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Mon Sep-19-11 10:01 PM
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| DrunkenBoat
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Mon Sep-19-11 10:02 PM
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| 2. Except the truly "great owners" didn't lose shit. The middling owners did. |
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I think they have a name for it in the labor movement -- whipsawing, & it's yet another form of playing one group off another.
The "great owners" play that game best.
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| jwirr
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Mon Sep-19-11 11:14 PM
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| 4. And those middling owners are going down left and right today. They |
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are called our middle class.
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| lonestarnot
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Mon Sep-19-11 10:04 PM
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| 3. Only comfort I find in this lopsided bullshit! |
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Tue Sep-20-11 06:09 AM
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| 5. kr.....He sure did........nt |
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