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Show lnrorrir la the Palo of tila labor power ' cannot, lenve the wholo class of buyers, buy-ers, 1. e., the capitalist class, unless he gives tip his own existence.' , He docs not belon to this or that capitalist, but lo the capitalist class, mid U Is for him to rind out hG man, I. e.. to Dnd a buyer In this capitalist claps. That Is to say, every time hl particular owner sou hlra free, hip necessities compel him to find hi next particular owner, and the only way ho can find him out la by Inquiring Inquir-ing of each of the thousand and one particular capitalists, cap In hand, "Are you the man. please tdr9" 1. e , can you Rive rue a Job? and he may have to hunt, all over the country, aye, the world, to find "his man' If lie does not die in the attempt; and jet they tell us, "A man's a man for a' that.' Hah'. He will he a man some day. At present he 1 only a slave in search rtf an owner. The People. Peo-ple. Sydney, Australia. I HAMMER HITS. I Our Ideas Are the Reflex of Material i Facts the Deity of Capital j The Buying and Selling of the Labor Power. Our Ideas arc the reflex eif.her of exiting material farts or of material facts that onee existed, or of the mixing mix-ing together of Incongruous material facts. Tho Pysteni we are now living under serves as an Illustration of the above Production at one time was private, therefore, ownership of the product was private and exchange : also. The idea that this Is still in ' existence Is the great fallacy underlying under-lying cnpltrillsm; private ownership, of social, comhlned. co-operative Lahore La-hore product Social production is th hulklest fact In tho world today. But, Me as It Is. It id not big enough to reflect ' Itself on the retina of tho reformer. ! ANTiy? P.ecaue hJs retina Is entirely taken up by a departed fact, Indlvid- j ual private production. I " , The Single Ta.xer'3 definition of i rent proves that he cannot see "the wood for the trees," that Is to say: ho canDot see society for lndilduals To a person who thinks that production produc-tion Is private, there is perhaps nothing noth-ing wrong alinut It; hut to tho pervon who knows that production Is social, and tho individual a mere unit, a cell In an organized social body, and that the unit cannot engage In production pro-duction of any kind without establish-I establish-I Ing a multitude of social relations, I the Single Taxer's definition is totally total-ly and ridiculously inadequate. Land Is a commodity, so Is the labor la-bor power of the wage class who work on It. Machinery Is a commodity, commod-ity, so Is the labor power of the wage slave who Is compelled by hunger to create It and operate It. Money Is a commodity as Is the hungry slave who Is bought with it. Rent, profit, and interest sre simply what the class who own thes things steal from the labor of others. It Is a class question. ques-tion. Capital has all the attilbutes of Deity! H Is Immaterial, it creates something out of nothing. It exalts, it debases, l( provides and takps away necordloe to its Own Good Pleasure.! Blessed by the name of our God CaplUU! The average duration, of Individual life is Increasing exactly In the same sense as the average wealth of th community Is Increasing. Neither of them Is Increasing aa far a.s tho wag" workers are concerned quite the op-poMto. op-poMto. Tho slopan of the Ccia Trust, tho Newspaper Trust, the Ix-cal Trust, the Salvation Trust, etc., etc. Hack in your chains, slaves! What's the matter? Th bujlng and selling of human labor power, 1, e., the buying and selling of human life the buying and selling of human flesh and blood that's what's ft the matter; and the "matt-.r ' will von tlnue to get worse and worse uutll the buying and selling of human labor power Is made to ceaxe foiever. "Who a going to make It ces-the ces-the buyers, the sellers, or both? Tb buyers make large profits out of th trade In human life, which enable; them totlive in luxury, and therefor ' can never bo persuade that such i fortunate state of things for them i. ' not a food thing. They will nev-' nev-' consent lo It. and will oppope It t the las' ditch; therefore th. dun devolvA'i nn the sellers. I'p with I hi intecTnl Industrial uninn' I'p wltl tho solidarity In unity of all the reil f-rs of human labor power. Th worker whop only source o |