The whole balance of what the people produced went to heap up the fortunes of these capitalists, to heap, and heap again, and yet again—and that in spite of the fact that they, and every one about them, lived in unthinkable luxury! And was it not plain that if the people stopped this ceaseless drain of “profits” there would be much more for all who worked? That was as plain as two and two makes four; and it was all there was to Socialism—the whole of it, absolutely the whole of it;
