¶ Leaders: Take Away The Leaders
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Leaders: Take Away The Leaders:
"Keep all the world’s political systems in force and all the world’s politicians and political workers at work, and at the same time take all the machinery of industrialization, all the tracks, pipes, and wires and dump them in the oceans away from all the countries of the Earth, and in six months two billion people, half of humanity, will die of starvation.
"Lacking the industrial tooling, no political system could alter that result.
“But, taking the contrary, leaving all of the machinery, wires, pipes, and tracks in place, and all the humans who now operate them, at their daily tasks, but take away all of the world’s politicians of any and all ideologies and send them and their party workers on a trip around the Sun by a slow speed rocket ship, and all those who are now eating will go on eating, and with all the sovereign nations’ barriers unmanned, the foods will begin to cross borders and the resources will be integrated and soon all of humanity will be eating and prospering.”
- Cite RBF in interview by George J. Barmann, “Plain Dealer,” Cleveland, 4 Jul’72
