While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of 'rags to riches' were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control.

It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the politi…

One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one anothe…

Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.

While early American society was an agrarian society, it was fast becoming more commercial, and commercial goals made their way among its agricultural classes …

'A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to shun the easy channels of a com…

Out of the beliefs nourished by the agrarian myth there had arisen the notion that the city was a parasitical growth on the country. Bryan spoke for a people r…