[lbo-talk] The Human Right to Profit

Angelus Novus fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 21 02:39:55 PST 2012


Eric wrote:


> Insane. Also completely logical and rational.

Ingo Stützle on his blog referred to the following wonderful letter from Marx to Engels:

"Nice, too, that the capitalists, who so vociferously opposed the ‘droit au travail’ [right to work], are now everywhere demanding ‘public support’ from their governments and hence advocating the ‘droit au profit’ at public expense in Hamburg, Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen and even England (in the form of suspension of the Acts)."

Full letter: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/letters/57_12_08.htm



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