Socialism, New and OldK. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, Limited, 1891 - 416 pages |
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abolition according Adam Smith allow amongst average labour Cairnes capitalist chief civilized classes co-operative production Collectivism Collectivists common labour competition consumable distribution doubt duction economic egoism employers England equality especially evils exchange value existing fact favour Fourier genius give Government greater hands human nature ideal ideas increase individual industrial revolution industry inequality inheritance interest justice Karl Marx kinds of labour labour cheques labour-time Laveleye laws least legislation less liberty Louis Blanc means measure ment Mill modern monopoly moral necessary number of hours paid partly phalanstery Political Economy poor possible practicable present system principle private property profits quantity question regards religion result revolution rich Rousseau Sartor Resartus scheme sense Simon Simonian skilled labour slavery Socialism Socialists society speculation sphere spirit surplus value syndicate tendency theory of value things tion to-day Utopia wages wealth whole word workers
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Page 271 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Page 37 - I find yet a greater equality amongst men than that of strength. For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto. That which may perhaps make such equality incredible is but a vain...
Page 149 - The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns are playing with the shadows, The young flowers are blowing toward the west : But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly ! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the free.
Page 141 - It sometimes happens, indeed, that a single independent workman has stock sufficient both to purchase the materials of his work, and to maintain himself till it be completed. He is both master and workman, and enjoys the whole produce of his own labour, or the whole value which it adds to the materials upon which it is bestowed.
Page 192 - Experience shows that this reduction is constantly being made. A commodity may be the product of the most skilled labour, but its value, by equating it to the product of simple unskilled labour, represents a definite quantity of the latter labour alone.
Page 37 - NATURE hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind as that, though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.
Page 89 - For myself in these days, I seem to see in this indestructibility of Hero-worship the everlasting adamant lower than which the confused wreck of revolutionary things cannot fall.
Page 31 - Therefore I must say that, as I hope for mercy, I can have no other notion of all the other governments that I see or know, than that they are a conspiracy of the rich, who on pretence of managing the public only pursue their private ends, and devise all the ways and arts they can find out; first, that they may, without danger, preserve all that they have so ill acquired, and then that they may engage the poor to toil and labour for them at as low rates as possible, and oppress them as much as they...
Page 120 - ... only the worst description, to lend their capital to the associations ; to do this at a diminishing rate of interest, and at last, perhaps, even to exchange their capital for terminable annuities. In this or some such mode, the existing accumulations of capital might honestly, and by a kind of spontaneous process, become in the end the joint property of all who participate in their productive employment: a transformation which...
Page 117 - ... instead of depending, as in so great a degree it now does, on the accident of birth, will be made by concert on an acknowledged principle of justice ; and when it will no longer either be, or be thought to be, impossible for human beings to exert themselves strenuously in procuring benefits which are not to be exclusively their own, but to be shared with the society they belong to.