"The bourgeois never included the ownership of capital as one of the social restraints that should be abolished, for the simple reason that it was not to him a restraint at all. It never therefore entered his head to regard it as such, and he saw nothing inconsistent in calling for the abolition of privilege, monopoly, and so forth, while hanging on to his capital."
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Christopher Caudwell, "Pacifism and Violence: A Study in Bourgeois Ethics," in Studies in a Dying Culture (1938)
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