An Evil of "Capitalism"
ISTENING recently to an eloquent tirade on the evils of "capitalism" by my wash-lady (by the way, is it a demerit of the electric washer that this voluble specimen, with her charming conversation, will be no longer required?) I could not help thinking
Ee ee OE SSE SSSSSSSeceres of the way in which Samuel Johnson summed up those incipient Socialists of his day. This' is what he says: "Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves." It has always struck me that there is a lot of meat in that epigram.-Daphne.
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Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 39, 11 April 1930, Page 28
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106An Evil of "Capitalism" Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 39, 11 April 1930, Page 28
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