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‘Labor and capital having produced this one hundred dollars, now proceed to divide it. Heads nodded around the table in affirmation. By the joint effort of capital and labor one hundred dollars of value was added. Capital furnished the factory, the machines, and paid all the expenses. ‘Capital and labor added this value of one hundred dollars. What has happened? One hundred dollars has been added to the value of the leather. It goes through the factory and comes out in the form of shoes, worth, let us say, two hundred dollars. Here is one hundred dollars’ worth of leather. This factory takes leather and makes it into shoes. ‘Let us, first of all, investigate a particular industrial process, and whenever I state something with which you disagree, please interrupt me.
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Here goes, and bear with me if at first I seem irrelevant. I shall develop the inevitability of the breakdown of the capitalist system, and I shall demonstrate mathematically why it must break down. I’ll give you the mathematics of my dream and here, in advance, I challenge you to show that my mathematics are wrong. It flows on and on, and it flows from competition to combination, and from little combination to large combination, and from large combination to colossal combination, and it flows on to socialism, which is the most colossal combination of all. Remember, the tide of evolution never flows backward.
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Not only is it inevitable that you small capitalists shall pass away, but it is inevitable that the large capitalists, and the trusts also, shall pass away. You have asserted the impossible, now let me demonstrate the inevitable. ‘You have said, a dozen of you to-night, that socialism is impossible. IN THE MIDST of the consternation his revelation had produced, Ernest began again to speak. The Iron Heel: Chapter 9: The Mathematics of a Dream The Iron Heel CHAPTER 9 THE MATHEMATICS OF A DREAM