People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to make accessible to him the blessings of a higher intellectual culture. Where industry is everything and man is nothing begins the realm of a ruthless economic despotism whose workings are no less disastrous than those of any political despotism.


Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice (ed. AK Press, 2004) - ISBN: 9781902593920

Rudolf Rocker Quotes

People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to make accessible to...

People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to make accessible to...

People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to make accessible to...

People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to make accessible to...