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The worker is a mere appendage to the capitalist factory. Machinery…

Quote byLucy Parsons · 1851–1942

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "U.S. Anarchism in the 1930s" (February 27, 1934).

English (original)

The worker is a mere appendage to the capitalist factory. Machinery has eliminated him. Robert Burns said: “O God, that men should be so cheap, and bread should be so dear!”

— Lucy Parsons

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