March 10, 2025

Every economic system, whether Capitalist or Socialist, degenerates into a system of privilege and exploitation unless it is policed by a social morality, which can only reside in a minority of citizens….Freedom is always in danger, and the majority of mankind will always acquiesce in its loss, unless a minority is willing to challenge the privileges of its few and the apathy of the masses.

Richard Crossman (1907-1974), British socialist writer, editor, Towards a Philosophy of Socialism, New Fabian Essays (1952) Seldes p.97

Are you awake to the minority’s challenge? Or did you press the mute button long ago?

The privilege of the few and the apathy of the masses constitute the twin banes of a properly functioning democracy, and those who appreciate this fact are always in the minority. Their task is to shame the former—the few, and awaken the latter—the many, with the awakening of