LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Ezra Pound speaking.
I know I haven’t got very far in this talk, so wait for the next one.
HEALTH, damn it, think about HEALTH in the interim.
#53 (July 10, 1942) U.S.(B67)
HOW COME
HEALTH! I said health, last time. Don’t you let anyone kid you out of it.
Don’t let ’em kid you out of looking for health in art. I am now goin’ on
to: How come.
CAPITAL does NOT come exclusively from labor. Not one man in a
hundred EVEN in Europe has digested that truth and its implications.
But what happens when a man who is living on the part of capital that
does NOT come from labor first finds out what he is doin’? He gets
scared as hell. He starts trying to conceal the cause of his privilege. HE
starts the class war; class war does NOT come from the bottom. The
man who is doing an honest day’s work feels his strength. He feels the
justice of drawin’ his pay. And until he’s nearly starved, until he is
worried to death by fear of losin’ his job, you cannot get him to DO
anything at all about what is taken off him. Nothing is rarer than a
peasant revolt. Save in the most atrocious circles. The peasant never
does more than grumble a bit, he never bothered about his overlord
gettin’ something. So long as he ate he was happy. And LONG after he
ceased to get a just portion of the returns from his own labor, he was
certainly wholly innocuous.
What happens on the other side? MAN finds he hasn’t justice on his
side, and gets a panic. He sets up university chairs in economics to
bamboozle the public. And this he does from sheer lack of culture. The
concept of the cultural heritage took a long time to crystallize. The
phrase is fairly new. I don’t recall a CLEAR formulation of it in pre-
Douglasite writing. It is latent in medieval terminology, but that