Anarchism and the Hatred of Labor
The vindictive spirit of anarchism toward capitalists is in this country mere hatred of labor and self-denial. There are a few capitalists who have more property than they honestly earned; but all but a very small fraction of the wealth of the country is in the hands of men who exchanged labor and self-privation for it. It is wealth that they have made, and which, if they had not made it, would have no existence. Beer-guzzlers and loafers and dreaming doctrinaires are not actuated by a hatred of capital, but by a hatred of the labor and self-denial which are required in the acquisition of capital. The short of it is that they hate to work, and are only imagining how they may obtain the proceeds of working people's work for nothing.—Selected.