half-intelligently

Updated: May 14, 2025

Capitalism makes these demands upon the rulers of capitalist society. There is no gainsaying them. A refusal to comply with them means death. Therefore the American nation, under the urge of economic necessity; guided half-intelligently, half-instinctively by the plutocracy, is moving along the imperial highroad, and woe to the man that steps across the path that leads to their fulfillment.

Scott Nearing - The American Empire