I’ll go even further, Judd; I’ll assert that the amount of waste inherent in capitalism is so frightful, that no amount of inefficiency under a free system can approach it. Remember the “iron ring,” and what it will mean to us to get into the factories, with the right to run them for ourselves! Remember our figures on the wastes of competition! Let us have a “slogan,” for you to paste in your hat and learn, Judd:
To compare the productive powers of a free system with those of capitalism, is to compare a normal human being with a vicious maniac.
Just a sentence or two, Judd, to remind us what this maniac has done:
Capitalism, between 1914 and 1918, deliberately destroyed 30,000,000 human lives, and $300,000,000,000 worth of property!
And again, Judd:
Capitalism in the United States keeps an average of five million men out of work all the time!
And again, Judd:
Capitalism in Europe last summer had nine million men working hard at learning to destroy the wealth which the rest of the workers were creating!
And then paste this sentence in your hat, Judd: