We believe that the inauguration of such a money system would be the beginning of the “leveling down and the leveling up” of the capitalist and the laborer, and that such a thing as practical equality will be impossible under any less radical and comprehensive change from present systems.
Woodhull discusses the need for a radical change in economic systems to achieve equality between capitalists and laborers.
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The same laws that bring fruit to perfection and dissolution perfect and dissolve societies.
And this is no more true of the pauper laborers of Europe and the slave laborers of Asia than it is of the free labor of America.
The tendencies of government from earliest historic time have persistently been to universal sway.