Excerpt from The Masses: And the Millionaires, Delivered Before the Oakland Nationalist Club, in Hamilton Hall, Oakland, California, on Monday Evening, May 26, 1890

They suggest that a possible inhabitant of Saturn, looking on this globe, observes the grotesque contradiction of the doctrine of universal love and human brotherhood taught on Sundays, and the cut-throat doctrine of the survival of the fittest and the devil for the hindmost, practiced durmg the remainder of the week - the spectacle of a Civilization on whose lips are the ethics of humanity and whose working scheme is a struggle for existence between man and man deadlier than the feuds of savagery - a scheme of society m which morality and the market have agreed notto interfere with each other. They answer that this state-of things has a cure, and that this cure 'is for each man to give his labor to his fellow-men, and to take from the common product of labor the means for his own life.

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