“Perhaps the most extraordinary characteristic of current
America
is the attempt to reduce life to buying and selling.
Life is not love unless love is sex and bought and
sold.
Life is not knowledge save knowledge of technique,
of science for destruction.
Life is not beauty except beauty for sale.
Life is not art unless its price is high and it is sold for
profit.
All life is production for profit,
and for what is profit but for buying and selling
again?”
— W.E.B. Du Bois, The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois:
A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century,
Published June 1st 1968 by International Publishers.
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