Something Buzz and Georgetti, the CAW, the CLC, CUPE and all the other unions in Canada should remember as they lobby to ameloriate the nasty brutishness of capitalism.
The same is true of the workers' movement: it does not come forward like a valiant knight moved by ethical indignation, who seeks to free the human race from the immorality of capitalism; rather it fights capitalism because it must, because for it there is no other way of salvation, because otherwise it will quite simply be pulverized by the enormous weight of capitalism. - Anton PannekoekThe whole quote is an excellent refutation of the moral indignation of liberals versus the historical materialist outlook of libertarian communists. Check it out at Boredom Won't Get Me Tonight
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