Quotation from: War of the Classes

Written by: Jack London


No scab capitalist strives to give more for less for any other
reason than that he hopes, by undercutting a competitor and driving
that competitor out of the market, to get that market and its
profits for himself. His ambition is to achieve the day when he
shall stand alone in the field both as buyer and seller,--when he
will be the royal non-scab, buying most for least, selling least for
most, and reducing all about him, the small buyers and sellers, (the
consumers and the laborers), to a general condition of scabdom.
This, for example, has been the history of Mr. Rockefeller and the
Standard Oil Company. Through all the sordid villanies of scabdom
he has passed, until today he is a most regal non-scab. However, to
continue in this enviable position, he must be prepared at a
moment's notice to go scabbing again. And he is prepared. Whenever
a competitor arises, Mr. Rockefeller changes about from giving least
for most and gives most for least with such a vengeance as to drive
the competitor out of existence.

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