Louis Blanc: The Organization of Labor Year: 1839
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Louis Blanc: The Organization of Labor
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844384.book-part-007

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Abstract

The institution of modern society rests principally on two men, the one acts as a figure head, the other as headsman. The hierarchy of the old school of politics begins with the king and ends on the gallows. When the workingmen of Lyons rose, saying, give us bread or kill us, we were very much embarrassed by this demand. As it seemed too difficult to support them, we strangled them.

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