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You Can't Ignore the Class War (By Saying You're Not Into Politics)

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How much melamine is there in your baby's formula
to create how much profit for the corporation that made it?
How much profit was created by the BPA-laden bottle
you give your baby each night in his cradle?

The CEOs and the shareholders of those corporations
know exactly how to spend ill-gotten profits
from melamine in formula and BPA in baby bottles.
They use it to send their babies to college.

How much education will you be able
to buy for your baby?  And with what?
If you're not into politics, don't have time
and don't care who gets what and how much,
you're condemning your baby
to a life of wage slavery.
That is, if your baby
grows up.

 

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." 
 Abraham Lincoln

"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other."
 Oscar Ameringer

"Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right and wrong."
 Richard Armour

"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."
 Warren Buffet

For "extra credit" see Fritz Lang's "METROPOLIS".

 

 

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