James Connolly Quote

Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.


Irish Worker (socialist newspaper) 29 August, 1915. Reprinted in P. Beresford Ellis (ed.), "James Connolly - Selected Writings", p. 248.


Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.

Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.

Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.

Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.