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Victoria C. Woodhull: “Let it be set down, once for all time, that he who denounces capital as the oppressor is not the representative labor…”

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Let it be set down, once for all time, that he who denounces capital as the oppressor is not the representative labor should choose to right its wrongs.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull argues that those who criticize capital as the oppressor are not suitable representatives for labor's interests.

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