Frederick Douglass on Capitalism, Slavery, and the ‘Arrant Nonsense’ of Socialism

Douglass soon became infuriated with the socialist speaker. “The attempts to place holding property in the soil—on the same footing as holding property in man, was most lame and impotent,” Douglass declared. “And the wonder is that anyone could listen with patience to such arrant nonsense.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://reason.com/2016/08/28/frederick-douglass-on-capitalism-slavery/