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    The Machine: "Fascism is capitalism plus murder."
    The Machine: "Fascism is capitalism plus murder."
    The Machine: "Fascism is capitalism plus murder."
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    The Machine: "Fascism is capitalism plus murder."

    By Upton Sinclair

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    Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) was a prolific American novelist and a political activist. Apart from his bestselling novels, which told in black and white, illuminated the realities of the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, he is remembered today for championing socialist causes that were naturally unpopular in conservative America. In classics like ‘The Jungle’ his work had considerable effects on American politics and legislation. Sinclair’s socialist ideals and dreams found their way to his fiction as he believed that no art can be practiced for art’s sake as long as humanity still suffers from persistent dangers and evils. Such orientations have often subjected Sinclair to harsh criticism and even to demonization from numerous critics and politicians of his time, the most distinguished among which was probably President Theodore Roosevelt. However his legacy is that of a successful and established novelist and activist who if not always righting the balance was able to bring an incisive mind and mass exposure to many areas and industries.

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    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateSep 30, 2015
    ISBN9781785434037
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      The Machine - Upton Sinclair

      The Machine by Upton Sinclair

      Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) was a prolific American novelist and a political activist. Apart from his bestselling novels, which told in black and white, illuminated the realities of the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, he is remembered today for championing socialist causes that were naturally unpopular in conservative America.  In classics like ‘The Jungle’ his work had considerable effects on American politics and legislation. Sinclair’s socialist ideals and dreams found their way to his fiction as he believed that no art can be practiced for art’s sake as long as humanity still suffers from persistent dangers and evils. Such orientations have often subjected Sinclair to harsh criticism and even to demonization from numerous critics and politicians of his time, the most distinguished among which was probably President Theodore Roosevelt.  However his legacy is that of a successful and established novelist and activist who if not always righting the balance was able to bring an incisive mind and mass exposure to many areas and industries.

      Index of Contents

      CHARACTERS

      ACT I

      ACT II

      ACT III

      UPTON SINCLAIR – A SHORT BIOGRAPHY

      UPTON SINCLAIR – A CONCISE BIBLIOGRAPHY

      CHARACTERS

      (In order of appearance)

      JULIA PATTERSON - A magazine writer

      JACK BULLEN - A parlor Socialist

      LAURA HEGAN - Hegan's daughter

      ALLAN MONTAGUE - A lawyer

      JIM HEGAN - The traction king

      ANNIE ROBERTS - A girl of the slums

      ROBERT GRIMES - The boss

      ANDREWS - Hegan's secretary

      PARKER - A clerk

      ACT I

      [JULIA PATTERSON'S apartments in a model tenement on the lower East Side. The scene shows the living- room, furnished very plainly, but in the newest taste; arts and crafts furniture, portraits of Morris and Ruskin on the walls; a centre table, a couple of easy-chairs, a divan and many book-shelves. The entrance from the outer hall is at centre; en- trance to the other rooms right and left.]

      [At rise: JULIA has pushed back the lamp from the table and is having a light supper, with a cup of tea; and at the same time trying to read a magazine, which obstinately refuses to remain open at the right place. She is an attractive and intelligent woman of thirty. The doorbell rings.]

      JULIA - Ah, Jack! [Presses button, then goes to the door.]

      JACK - [Enters, having come upstairs at a run. He is a college graduate and volunteer revolutionist, one of the organizers of the Society of the Friends of Russian Freedom; handsome and ardent, eager in manner, and a great talker.] Hello, Julia. All alone?

      JULIA - Yes. I expected a friend, but she can't come until later.

      JACK - Just eating?

      JULIA - I've been on the go all day. Have something.

      JACK - No; I had dinner. [As she starts to clear things away.] Don't stop on my account.

      JULIA - I was just finishing up. [As he begins to help.] No; sit down.

      JACK - Nonsense. Let the men be of some use in the world.

      JULIA - What have you been up to to-day?

      JACK - We're organizing a demonstration for the Swedish strikers.

      JULIA - It's marvelous how those Swedes hold on, isn't it?

      JACK - The people are getting their eyes open. And when they're once open, they stay open.

      JULIA - Yes. Did you see my article?

      JACK - I should think I did! Julia, that was a dandy!

      JULIA - Do you think so?

      JACK - I do, indeed. You've made a hit. I heard a dozen people talking about it.

      JULIA - Indeed?

      JACK - You've come to be the champion female muck- raker of the country, I think.

      [JULIA laughs.]

      JACK - Why did you want to see me so specially tonight?

      JULIA - I've a friend I want you to meet. Somebody I'm engaged in educating.

      JACK - You seem to have chosen me for your favorite proselytizer.

      JULIA - You've seen things with your own eyes, Jack.

      JACK - Yes; I suppose so.

      JULIA - And you know how to tell about them. And you've such an engaging way about you...nobody could help but take to you.

      JACK - Cut out the taffy. Who's your friend?

      JULIA - Her name's Hegan.

      JACK - A woman?

      JULIA - A girl, yes. And she's coming right along, Jack. You must take a little trouble with her, for if we can only bring her through, she can do a lot for us. She's got no end of money.

      JACK - No relative of Jim Hegan, I hope?

      JULIA - She's his daughter.

      JACK - [With a bound.] What!

      JULIA - His only daughter.

      JACK - Good God, Julia!

      JULIA - What's the matter?

      JACK - You know I don't want to meet people like that.

      JULIA - Why not?

      JACK - I don't care to mix with them. I've nothing to say to them.

      JULIA - My dear Jack, the girl can't help her father.

      JACK - I know that, and I'm sorry for her. But, meantime, I've got my work to do . . .

      JULIA - You couldn't be doing any better work than this. If we can make a Socialist of Laura Hegan . . .

      JACK - Oh, stuff, Julia! I've given up chasing after will-o'-the-wisps like that.

      JULIA - -But think what she could do!

      JACK - Yes. I used to think what a whole lot of people could do. You might as well ask me to think what her father could do . . . if he only wanted to do it, instead of poisoning the life-blood of the city, and piling up his dirty millions. Go about this town and see the misery and horror . . . and think that it's Jim Hegan who sits at the top and reaps the profit of it all! It's Jim Hegan who is back of the organization . . . he's the real power behind Boss Grimes. It's he who puts up the money and makes possible this whole regime of vice and graft . . .

      JULIA - My dear boy, don't be silly.

      JACK - How do you mean? Isn't it true?

      JULIA - Of course it's true . . . but why declaim to me about it? You forget you are talking to the champion female muckraker of the country.

      JACK - Yes, that's right. But I don't want to meet these people socially. They mean well, a lot of them, I suppose; but they've been accustomed all their

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