The true alternative is not some way associated with Eastern Europe. The way Mr. Siegel spoke about economics was utterly beautiful. His passionate feeling for what people deserve was inseparable from his scholarship scholarship as thorough and loving as ever existed in the world. He showed that justice is real, is imperative is not something to water down and lie about and that justice is also the most graceful thing in the world, the height of style. He documented that statement, and also, in all his words and moments, exemplified it.
Labor is the only source of wealth.
Every bit of capital that exists was made by labor, just as everything that is consumed is. In the opening paragraphs of the present lecture, Mr. Siegel mentions Adam Smith, and he will quote him in the portion to be published next week. He cared for Smith very much, and showed, in other classes, that this economist, so often put forth as the spokesperson for laissez-faire capitalism, really stood for a deep kindness to people and reality itself. Mr. Siegel angered persons of the press because his honesty and grandeur of knowledge were the greatest threat they knew to their egos to their thirst to feel superior to everything. His beautiful honesty and knowledge are alive in Aesthetic Realism, and are what America needs most.