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Unless plutocracy can persuade the majority of the people to close up…
Quote byVictor L. Berger · 1860–1929
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: In Defense of Representative Government: Speech to Congress - October 17, 1919.
English (original)
Unless plutocracy can persuade the majority of the people to close up the public schools and make illiterates of the next generation, and unless it can also persuade them to give up the electoral franchise, plutocracy is doomed. So much is clear. And that is the reason why we Socialists can look with such equanimity and complacence into the future. The future belongs to some form of Socialism.
— Victor L. Berger
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