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LibriVox recording of Utopia of Usurers, by G. K. Chesterton, read by Ray Clare.
Now I have said again and again (and I shall continue to
say again and again on all the most inappropriate occasions)
that we must hit Capitalism, and hit it hard, for the plain
and definite reason that it is growing stronger. Most of the
excuses which serve the capitalists as masks are, of course,
the excuses of hypocrites. They lie when they claim
philanthropy; they no more feel any particular love of men
than Albu felt an affection for Chinamen. They lie when they
say they have reached their position through their own
organising ability. They generally have to pay men to
organise the mine, exactly as they pay men to go down it.
They often lie about the present wealth, as they generally
lie about their past poverty. But when they say that they
are going in for a "constructive social policy," they do not
lie. They really are going in for a constructive social
policy. And we must go in for an equally destructive social
policy; and destroy, while it is still half-constructed, the
accursed thing which they construct.” (Summary from Gilbert
Keith Chesterton, d. 1936)
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Artist/Composer: G. K. Chesterton
Date: 2009-02-18
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: LibriVox; audio books; essays; Chesterton
Creative Commons license: Public Domain
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