Odd thing about good writing

John Dos Passos thought Sacco and Venzetti innocent. When he wrote The Big Money he was in his far-left,near-commie phase. Still, his writing just burns the page. Even this wingnut who thinks they were guilty can see that.

they have clubbed us off the streets they are stronger they are rich they hire and fire the politicians the newspaper editors the old judges the small men with reputations the college presidents the wardheelers (Listen businessmen college presidents judges America will not forget her betrayers) they hire the men with guns the uniforms the policecars the patrolwagons

America our nation has been beaten by strangers who have turned our language inside out who have taken the clean words our fathers spoke and made them slimy and foul

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