LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

meanin’ interest on lent money. Gangster barons kept and lent all right
whenever they could so wangle it. Greed, violence, nothing new about
vices. When the two had rotted the world long enough, there came an
explosion. The difference between OUR American Revolution and the
French was enormous. OURS rose with the perception that dead men do
not EAT. That is, with a perception that there is a just limit to the rights
of work done by men [who] have ceased to breath. Jefferson said it: the
earth belongs to the living. As He did not say: the earth belongs to idiots.
But on the other hand, he did not clearly assert that the management of
the earth requires the intelligence of men who are prepared, and FITTED
to govern. An assault on mortal man, an assault on the exaggerated
privileges accorded to the whims and greeds of the dead was NEEDED.
It came.
Naturally the Revolution was betrayed. BUT it lasted sixty years. Or
rather the government set up on that basis lasted 60 years. Count it
longer dependin’ on when you count the start of our revolution as from
1776 or 1750? Or 60? The French revolution flopped in a hurry. The
Napoleonic dream was not merely a dream of conquest. To witness the
CODE, code Napoleon, Napoleon’s law code. Desire for justice,
Mediterranean sense of justice. But a lot of good sense got lost. The
guilds, the anti-trade or ganizations, with their grades of apprenticage,
got chucked into the discard. They were NOT 100% innocent. Against
the feudal greed, trade greed developed. Nevertheless the guilds left a
dream. Left THEIR code of sanity, code of sense, necessity of order and
preparation.
There is now a new code in Italy. STUDY it. Is it better than Napoleon’s
anti-feudal, anti-privilege demonstration? It is a matter of interest,
something you ought to know You ought NOT to be in this war and that
CODE is a proof of it. Proof of what you are fightin’, but that you DO
NOT know you are fightin’. All the hopes of Ruskin and William
Morris, work being done, work done by men still livin’, work done by
the departed. includin’ in the latter two brackets ALL the masterwork, all