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>>18113136
>And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away.
>And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need.
>And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.
>The great owners ignored the three cries of history.
>The land fell into fewer hands, the number of the dispossessed increased, and every effort of the great owners was directed at repression.
>The money was spent for arms, for gas to protect the great holdings, and spies were sent to catch the murmuring of revolt so that it might be stamped out.
>The changing economy was ignored, plans for the change ignored; and only means to destroy revolt were considered, while the causes of revolt went on.