One hundred years ago this week the militantly socialist weekly The Worker (Brisbane) had a big, fat, loud, swaggering guest columnist. It was Capitalism himself.
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"I AM CAPITALISM."
"I am the Overlord. I am the Superman. I am God.
"Omnipotent am I. Civilisations, dynasties, races, I have founded and swept away. I brought steam into being just as I later gave man dominion over electric force. For me man made printing, cut the Panama Canal, built the dams of Nile. Science, art, culture, education, are my ministers. They all serve my will, for I perform miracles. I am the wonder worker. I killed the Christ. I stoned the prophets.
"Men of peace I cause to love war. I slay the babes; I ravish the women; I starve the poor; I crush the weak. The hardy peasant I drive from the soil, sending him to rot in cities.
"I doom the children to slavery or untimely death. I rob the young of their dreams, the babes of their childhood. It's because of me the poor are poor. Because of me they wear shoddy clothes, live in shoddy houses, thinking shoddy thoughts, the outcome of the shoddy literature I cause them to love; their sorrows are as shoddy as their pleasures. They are the mass, the mob, the herd.
