Let it be repeated--as a vital proposition--that the whole industrial programme of these monopolists rests upon, and implies, such a degree of poverty, on the part of the laboring classes, as will put their labor in direct competition with the so-called pauper labor of all other countries.
Spooner emphasizes that the monopolists' industrial agenda relies on maintaining poverty among workers to ensure competition with cheap labor globally.
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