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Enjolras. (antinouswild) wrote in compass_network,
@ 2013-06-30 00:45:00

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Property is theft.

Strange to read the treatise of a countryman in a foreign language, but we take what we can find; stranger still to think I might have met him.

Every manufacturer who employs one thousand laborers, and gains from them daily one sou each, is slowly pushing them into a state of misery. Every man who makes a profit has entered into a conspiracy with famine. But the whole nation has not even this labor, by means of which property starves it. And why? Because the workers are forced by the insufficiency of their wages to monopolize labor; and because, before being destroyed by dearth, they destroy each other by competition. [src]

I should have liked to meet him.

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	albusdumbledore 2013-06-30 05:08 am UTC (link)
	Light reading, I see? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	antinouswild 2013-06-30 05:12 am UTC (link)
	Light? No. But worth the effort. No one should expect wisdom to be light. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	albusdumbledore 2013-06-30 05:15 am UTC (link)
	I wonder then, why wisdom is considered enlightening. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	antinouswild 2013-06-30 05:17 am UTC (link)
	Because English is clumsy and imprecise. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	albusdumbledore 2013-06-30 05:21 am UTC (link)
	You can't blame the language for the sentiment -- or the sediment. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	antinouswild 2013-06-30 05:29 am UTC (link)
	What is the sentiment? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	albusdumbledore 2013-06-30 05:31 am UTC (link)
	That wisdom lifts burdens. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	antinouswild 2013-06-30 05:34 am UTC (link)
	Yes. And like anything powerful, it's not easily acquired, nor casually wielded. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	albusdumbledore 2013-06-30 05:36 am UTC (link)
	Sounds rather burdensome. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	antinouswild 2013-06-30 05:38 am UTC (link)
	You are speaking in circles. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	albusdumbledore 2013-06-30 05:40 am UTC (link)
	More -- a line that curves to meet itself. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	antinouswild 2013-06-30 05:41 am UTC (link)
	Does it find its way to the point, or does it serve only to evade the subject at hand? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	albusdumbledore 2013-06-30 05:45 am UTC (link)
	I think that depends entirely upon the sharpness of the point and its current relevance. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	antinouswild 2013-06-30 05:49 am UTC (link)
	I have no desire to engage in pointless generalities. You seem pleased enough with them for two men, so I'm sure you won't mind if I leave you to it. (Reply to this) (Parent)