Can You Blame Me If I Am

The Remedy [for The Great Depression] Is To Give The Workers Access To The Means Of Production, And Let Them Produce For Themselves, Not For Others, . . . The American Way.

And As For Other Men, Who Worked In Tank-rooms Full Of Steam, And In Some Of Which There Were Open Vats Near The Level Of The Floor, Their Peculiar Trouble Was That They Fell Into The Vats; And When They Were Fished Out, There Was Never Enough Of Them Left To Be Worth Exhibiting,-sometimes They Would Be Overlooked For Days, Till All But The Bones Of Them Had Gone Out Into The World As Durham's Pure Leaf Lard! This Contributed To The Passing Of The Pure Food Act Of 1906.

Human Beings Suffer Agonies, And Their Sad Fates Become Legends; Poets Write Verses About Them And Playwrights Compose Dramas, And The Remembrance Of Past Grief Becomes A Source Of Present Pleasure - Such Is The Strange Alchemy Of The Spirit.

Journalism Is One Of The Devices Whereby Industrial Autocracy Keeps Its Control Over Political Democracy; It Is The Day-by-day, Between-elections Propaganda, Whereby The Minds Of The People Are Kept In A State Of Acquiescence, So That When The Crisis Of An Election Comes, They Go To The Polls And Cast Their Ballots For Either One Of The Two Candidates Of Their Exploiters.

All Art Is Propaganda. It Is Universally And Inescabably Propaganda; Sometimes Unconsciously, But Often Deliberately, Propaganda.