"This, then, is our answer. We have no words to waste on you. When you reach out your vaunted strong hands for our palaces and purpled ease, we will show you what strength is. In roar of shell and shrapnel and in whine of machine-guns will our answer be couched. We will grind you revolutionists down under our heel, and we shall walk upon your faces. The world is ours, we are its lords, and ours it shall remain. As for the host of labor, it has been in the dirt since history began, and I read history aright. And in the dirt it shall remain so long as I and mine and those that come after us have the power. There is the word. It is the king of words --"Power". Not God, not Mammon, but Power. Pour it over your tongue till it tingles with it. Power."
This is a quote from Jack London's "The Iron Heel."
It is the response of the leader of a discussion club of rich people who have just heard a firebrand socialist warn them that they have mismanaged society, and that the coming election will see them put out of power.
I think it bears reading...you can find it at gutenberg.org where you can download it in HTML. It's a short book.
It will not help your sleep.gutenberg.org