The responsibility for insurrections rests in the last analysis upon the unimaginative greed and endless stupidity of the dominant classes. […] Confronted with the deep insurgency of labor what do capitalists and their spokesmen do? They resist every demand, submit only after a struggle, and prepare a condition of war to the death.

Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) American journalist and author

A Preface to Politics, ch. 9 (1914)