A People's History of the United States.

"It is roughly estimated that Africa lost 50 million human beings to death and slavery . . . at the hands of slave traders and plantation owners in Western Europe and America, the countries deemed the most advanced in the world."^1a SMITH MARX AYOUB

" . . . [C]ontracts made between rich and poor, between employer and employee, landlord and tenant, creditor and debtor, generally favor the more powerful of the two parties."^1b DARWIN SMITH MARX AYOUB

"Certain new facts may . . . emerge so clearly as to lead to general withdrawal of loyalty from the system. . . The elite's weapons, money, control of information would be useless in the face of a determined population."^1c HOBBES RAND RAWLS AYOUB AYOUB

"Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes."^1d SCHUMPETER

¹ Howard Zinn. A People's History of the United States 1492-Present. Revised and updated ed. Howard Zinn, 1980, 1995. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
^a Drawing the Color Line, at 29.
^b A Kind of Revolution, at 99.
^c The Coming Revolt of the Guards, at 622 and 627.
^d Ibid., at 624.