Taking away the right of direct producers to own firsthand what they have directly
produced has made it very easy to bring about the modern system of capitalism.

Anti-socialists and anti-democrats pretend to worry about minority rights in a possible
future social-democratic confederalist republic. And yet, even now, under really-existing
capitalism, there are no constitutionally affirmed or guaranteed minority rights for the
poor. And, the actual ideology of laissez-faire capitalism offers no constitutionally
protected welfare rights for class, racial, or gender minorities. The ideologists of
laissez-faire capitalism have always opposed welfare, racial, and gender rights as
just creeping socialism. As for welfare rights for the poor, the aged, the sick, and the
disabled, orthodox laissez-faire principles have always opposed welfare rights.





"Man is his own greatest mystery. He does not understand the vast veiled universe
into which he has been cast for the reason that he does not understand himself. He
comprehends but little of his organic processes and even less of his unique capacity
to perceive the world about him, to reason and to dream. Least of all does he
understand his noblest and most mysterious faculty: the ability to transcend himself
and perceive himself in the act of perception."
-- Lincoln Barnett