"I am not a Labor Leader; I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, SOMEONE ELSE WOULD LEAD YOU OUT. You must use your heads as well as your hands, and get yourself out of your present condition" [stress added].
Eugene Debs, Utah 1910.
The (tiny) photograph depicts twelve-year old Adeline "Addie" Card, yet another casualty of American capitalist greed. She is at her textile machine. A commodity herself, she is withheld for the exchange value she represents to American business interests...
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Adeline Card, property of the Pownal, Vermont Cotton Mill. Photo: August, 1910.
"I am not a Labor Leader; I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, beca...
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