Saturday, June 15,
2:00 pm
to
4:00 pm
Friends Meeting House,
6 Mount Street,
An imaginary interview with Engels placing his Conditions of the Working Class in England into a modern context by Susan Rosenthal which is well worth a read.
"...The English capitalist class is charitable out of self interest; it gives nothing outright, but regards its gifts as a business matter, makes a bargain with the poor...As though they rendered the workers a service in first sucking out their very life-blood and then placing themselves before the world as mighty benefactors of humanity when they give back to the plundered victims the hundredth part of what belongs to them!..."
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