Ernest Jones – Chartist

‘REPUBLICAN Institutions are no safeguard against social slavery. Where a great difference between the possessions of one man and those of another is allowed to exist, no political laws can save the working man from wages-slavery; where free access to the means of labour is denied—where that access is dependent on the will of a few rich men, it is always in the power of the latter to force that wages-slavery, by means of competition, down to the veriest point of misery, and to consign the working-classes to hunger, disease, crime and death.
Is, then, political power of no use? Is it not worth trying for? Far from that—it is the only leverage by which social slavery can be subverted—means are altogether inadequate, when once the social power of the few is backed by political institutions and armed force ready to defend them.‘

Ernest Jones from 1851 and as true today as then
https://minorvictorianwriters.org.uk/jones/c_misc_letters_etc_1.htm#6.