The following is a translation of the paragraph whose opening lines Hass quotes. I think of the unemployed. I think of the forty million hungry people that capitalism has thrown from their factories and from their fields. Fifteen million unemployed laborers and their families. Certainly, there have been in other times, underground strikes, but never with causes, characteristics and damge similar to this.
Today is a simultaneous, universal and growing phenomena without exit.
The remedies and palliatives that they try are superficial, futile and useless. The evil resides in the very structure of the capitalist system, in the dialectics of production. The evil resides in the inevitable progress of production techniques, in the confluence, and in addition the insatiable thirst for benefits of the employers. Herein lies the origin of the unemployed. Abolish the increased value and the entire world will have work.