The Coöperative Commonwealth in Its Outlines: An Exposition of Modern SocialismLee and Shepard, 1884 - 278 pages |
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... Competition gluts our markets , enables the rich to take ad- vantage of the necessities of the poor , makes each man snatch the bread out of his neighbor's mouth , converts a nation of brethren into a mass of hostile , isolated units ...
... Competition gluts our markets , enables the rich to take ad- vantage of the necessities of the poor , makes each man snatch the bread out of his neighbor's mouth , converts a nation of brethren into a mass of hostile , isolated units ...
Page 40
... Competition , " like most economical terms , is a very slip- pery word . At one time it means something which advances the successful . but leaves the unsuccessful on his former level . that kind of competition rouses the energy of both ...
... Competition , " like most economical terms , is a very slip- pery word . At one time it means something which advances the successful . but leaves the unsuccessful on his former level . that kind of competition rouses the energy of both ...
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... competition attract- ed to the great capitals , just as iron filings are to the magnet . The great capitalist triumphs , the small capitalist becomes a clerk , wage - laborer or parasite of some kind or other ; the middle class ...
... competition attract- ed to the great capitals , just as iron filings are to the magnet . The great capitalist triumphs , the small capitalist becomes a clerk , wage - laborer or parasite of some kind or other ; the middle class ...
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... competitors ; half of us must perish , before the other half can live . " All the result of plan- less work . .. When such a crisis has lasted for years , when such sacrifice of goods and standstill of production has finally overcome ...
... competitors ; half of us must perish , before the other half can live . " All the result of plan- less work . .. When such a crisis has lasted for years , when such sacrifice of goods and standstill of production has finally overcome ...
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... competition . In nine cases out of ten they have only one refuge left : that of squeezing themselves in between producers and con - umers as shopkeepers , saloonkeepers , peddlers , agents , " boarding - and lodging - house - keepers ...
... competition . In nine cases out of ten they have only one refuge left : that of squeezing themselves in between producers and con - umers as shopkeepers , saloonkeepers , peddlers , agents , " boarding - and lodging - house - keepers ...
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