On the record
Do not all the results of labor accrue to the privileged few? and are not the producing classes just as much enslaved to them as the subjects of an absolute monarch are to him?
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Victoria C. Woodhull
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Editor's note · Context
In this statement, Woodhull argues that the producing classes are enslaved by the privileged few, similar to subjects under a monarch.
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