"Consider the following impassioned plea against Wall Street and corporations:
Capitalism in the United States has developed in such a way that the industries are owned and controlled through great corporations. Through interlocking directorates these corporations are bound together. The result is that a relatively small group of capitalists with headquarters in Wall Street today are the masters of the industries of the Unites States.Or as we now know them, the 1%. Only this wasn’t written by any Occupy Wall Street demand committee. This is from a pamphlet produced by the Workers’ Party of America in 1923. Haven’t heard of the WPA? They weren’t around for very long. As Wikipedia explains, the WPA was “the name of the legal party organization used by the Communist Party USA from the last days of 1921 until the middle of 1929.” "
Go read the whole thing.
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