MDDM Bread & Roses

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Into their places are pushing the farmers and
gardeners, the well-paid porters and artisans, the
businessmen,—all those with property and money. And
with all this change, so curiously parallel to that of
the Other-world, goes too the same inevitable change
in ideals. The South laments to-day the slow, steady
disappearance of a certain type of Negro,—the
faithful, courteous slave of other days, with his
incorruptible honesty and dignified humility. He is
passing away just as surely as the old type of
Southern gentleman is passing, and from not dissimilar
causes,—the sudden transformation of a fair far-off
ideal of Freedom into the hard reality of
bread-winning and the
   consequent deification of Bread.

	-WEB De Bois

With the development of the stage of manufacture,
however, there begins the division
of labor, and here instead of making one object, man
begins to produce fragments of an object. In the
process of production, there begins stultification,
distortion, and
ossification of his physical and intellectual
faculties. 

	-CLR James



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