> So, you go back to the mid-nineteenth century and these so-called “#FactoryGirls,” young girls working in the #Lowell [Massachusetts] mills, were reading serious contemporary literature. They recognized that the point of the system was to turn them into tools who would be manipulated, degraded, kicked around, and so on. And they fought against it bitterly for a long period. That’s the history of the rise of #capitalism.
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