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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI was re-reading "The Perils of Prosperity" by Leuchtenburg
preparing a lecture on that period ....
OK, I was re "skimming" the pp ...
wait, that doesn't sound right either ...
anyway, I came across a quote that I had momentarily become jammed in my memory:
Who said this?
"Do you want to know what causes war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars."
"Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth."
(and if you google it you have already lost - you know who you are)
HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)Now I'll Google it to see if I'm correct.
ashling
(25,771 posts)pre Zinn
HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)surprised the hell out of me who it was.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)I have a funny feeling it's Henry Ford based on nothing more than that the answer is supposed to be surprising and that he believed in paying his workers enough to afford his cars. Sounds like his style of speaking too.
If I'm wrong, I'm guessing it's from that era anyway.
Now I'm off to google it.
ashling
(25,771 posts)Henry the Ford
I can't remember who pointed it out now, but in America we have gone from an era where the largest employer (Ford) paid its employees high wages so that they afford its products to an era in which the largest employer (Walmart) pays its employees so little that they can only afford to buy its products.
ashling
(25,771 posts)I have used that in my political science classes, but not worded so well.