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The Belly of the Revolution: Agriculture, Energy,
and the Future of Communism
Jasper Bernes

In the days when man’s members did not all agree
amongst themselves, as is now the case, but had each
its own ideas and a voice of its own, the other parts
thought it unfair that they should have the worry and
the trouble and the labour of providing everything for
the belly, while the belly remained quietly in their midst
with nothing to do but to enjoy the good things which
they bestowed upon it; they therefore conspired together
that the hands should carry no food to the mouth, nor
the mouth accept anything that was given it, nor the
teeth grind up what they received. While they sought in
this angry spirit to starve the belly into submission, the
members themselves and the whole body were reduced
to the utmost weakness. Hence it had become clear that
even the belly had no idle task to perform, and was no
more nourished than it nourished the rest, by giving out
to all parts of the body that by which we live and thrive,
when it has been divided equally amongst the veins and
is enriched with digested food — that is, the blood.1

full: http://www.mcmprime.com/files/Materialism_Energy.pdf#page=373
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