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Filantroper med trasiga byxor
Robert Tressells The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (ungefär: filantroperna med trasiga byxor) är den engelska arbetarlitteraturens paradverk. Handlingen kretsar kring en grupp arbetare – målare, närmare bestämt – under början av 1900-talet, och dess form beskrivs nog bäst som eklektisk, för författaren blandar friskt mellan indignationsroman, melodram, föreläsning, satir, burlesk, realism och…
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“No one had any right to condemn him for this, because all who live under the present system practise selfishness, more or less. We must be selfish: the System demands it. We must be selfish or we shall be hungry and ragged and finally die in the gutter. The more selfish we are the better off we shall be. In the 'Battle of Life' only the selfish and cunning are able to survive: all others are beaten down and trampled under foot. No one can justly be blamed for acting selfishly--it is a matter of self-preservation--we must either injure or be injured. It is the system that deserves to be blamed. What those who wish to perpetuate the system deserve is another question.”
― Robert Tressell, quote from The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
