Quotation from: War of the Classes

Written by: Jack London


As has been said before, nobody likes to play the compulsorily
generous role of scab. It is a bad business proposition on the face
of it. And it is patent that there would be no capitalist scabs if
there were not more capital than there is work for capital to do.
When there are enough factories in existence to supply, with
occasional stoppages, a certain commodity, the building of new
factories by a rival concern, for the production of that commodity,
is plain advertisement that that capital is out of a job. The first
act of this new aggregation of capital will be to cut prices, to
give more for less,--in short to scab, to strike at the very
existence of the less generous aggregation of capital the work of
which it is trying to do.

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