We
the average CEO's who make 728 times more than a minimum wage worker
We
the richest people who have more than doubled their net worth between 1994 and 1998 to more than $1 trillion
We
the 55 white male property owners who counted slaves 3/5ths of a person when we wrote our country's constitution
We
the CEOs of the nine global media giants which dominate film production, book publishing, music, TV networks, cable, magazines, newspaper and the like markets
We
the 8 men of the electoral commission who by one vote chose Republican runner-up of the 1876 elections, Rutherford Hayes, to be President, withdraw troops from the South to end Reconstruction and pay the laundry bill for Ku Klux Klan hoods and robes
We
the CEOs of the "Seven Sisters" who in 1974 owned and controlled almost all of the oil moving in world trade
We
the five Supreme Court Justices who selected George W. Bush by one vote over the Democrat who beat him by over a half million ballots in the popular count
We
the top three billionaires who alone possess more assets than the combined gross national product of the 48 least developed countries with their total population of 600 million people
We
the richest one percent who earn as much after taxes as the poorest 100 million Americans
We
the rulers of
you
the people
Reprinted from Fall 2002 issue of Struggle, A Magazine of Proletarian Revolutionary Literature.
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