I won't fight greed with gibberish, I promise. An old socialist knows that relatively privileged individuals have emotional ties to the capitalist way of life.
They are not even inclined to imagine a more rational, more just social order. Their careers - and ambitious wives - often discourage idealistic dreaming. " Hey, make a buck, honey ! "
Believe it or not the famous American socialist , Eugene V. Debs, had just such a wife. Novelist Irving Stone wrote about it.
These privileged or ambitious individuals are more offended by disbelief in the profit system than devout Christians are by the New Atheism.
They are not even inclined to imagine a more rational, more just social order. Their careers - and ambitious wives - often discourage idealistic dreaming. " Hey, make a buck, honey ! "
Believe it or not the famous American socialist , Eugene V. Debs, had just such a wife. Novelist Irving Stone wrote about it.
These privileged or ambitious individuals are more offended by disbelief in the profit system than devout Christians are by the New Atheism.
[ " The book Stone considered his best, but most neglected, is a biographical novel based on the life of Eugene V. Debs & his wife Kate, who was opposed to socialism.[1]
1. Kate Debs seemed to have been so hostile to Debs's socialist activities--it threatened her sense of middle-class respectability.... " ]
1. Kate Debs seemed to have been so hostile to Debs's socialist activities--it threatened her sense of middle-class respectability.... " ]
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| About the marriage of Eugene V. Debs |
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