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“Theoretically, it was possible to bring about the change from Capitalism to Socialism by peaceful, one-step-at-a-time methods; anyone could lay out the steps, but when you came to take the first one, you confronted the fact that the capitalists didn’t want to be evolved into socialism, and wouldn’t let you take any step." - Upton Sinclair, "Oil!"
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"They didn't want the young workers to be educated. It wouldn't be so easy for the machine to control them." "Oil!" by Upton Sinclair
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"If it was the duty of the young to sacrifice themselves for the old, how could there ever be any progress in the world?" - "Oil!" by Upton Sinclair.
— Oct 04, 2026 09:08AM
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"Do you remember our oil strike, and what we read about it in the papers? Suppose you had never been to Paradise, and didn’t know the strikers, but had got all your impressions from the Angel City newspapers! Well, that’s the way it seems to me about Russia; this is the biggest strike in history, and the strikers have won, and seized the oil wells."
— Sep 29, 2026 10:29AM