Modern SocialismCommonwealth Company, 1897 - 179 páginas |
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... employed by the defenders of capitalism to discredit it before the world . In fact , it is rapidly disappearing . So great has been the change of late that even to - day one need not hesitate to proclaim himself a Socialist . Prof. Ely ...
... employed by the defenders of capitalism to discredit it before the world . In fact , it is rapidly disappearing . So great has been the change of late that even to - day one need not hesitate to proclaim himself a Socialist . Prof. Ely ...
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... employed in a broad and general sense , signifying the rejection of selfishness , and affirming altruism as the principle of social action . It thus recognizes Society as a growing organism , and not a mere aggregation of individuals ...
... employed in a broad and general sense , signifying the rejection of selfishness , and affirming altruism as the principle of social action . It thus recognizes Society as a growing organism , and not a mere aggregation of individuals ...
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... employ- ment of artisans in manufactories . Thus there arose in this manufactural age the wage laborer and the employer , and the distinction between these classes has been constantly widen- ing with the concentration of production . It ...
... employ- ment of artisans in manufactories . Thus there arose in this manufactural age the wage laborer and the employer , and the distinction between these classes has been constantly widen- ing with the concentration of production . It ...
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... employing six hundred men . The one hundred bosses spend much time seeking jobs , and trying to beat each other . When in their offices , they have a large amount of neces- sary work to do in the way of writing letters , preparing ...
... employing six hundred men . The one hundred bosses spend much time seeking jobs , and trying to beat each other . When in their offices , they have a large amount of neces- sary work to do in the way of writing letters , preparing ...
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... employed in a factory at an average of $ 10 per week . After the wages have been paid from the product produced by these men , a large sum remains , a small part of which goes to replace the capital used up in the pro- It is said cess ...
... employed in a factory at an average of $ 10 per week . After the wages have been paid from the product produced by these men , a large sum remains , a small part of which goes to replace the capital used up in the pro- It is said cess ...
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Términos y frases comunes
28 LAFAYETTE PLACE abolish abolition abstract labor advantages amount Anarchism become capitalist cause cease cent cialism Co-operative Commonwealth common labor competition condition consumed corruption cost crises demand democracy democratic displacement distribution dollars economic Edward Bellamy employer employment equal evil exist exploitation fact factory Fredrick Engels freedom Genesis to Revelation Gronlund hands human idle income increase individual industrial depressions instruments of production interest inventions labor power liberty machine machinery manufacture means of production ment method millions misconception modern monopolies nation natural natural monopolies necessary organized over-production paternalism persons planless political political corruption poverty present order present system private property Professor Ely profit proletariat proposes public ownership realize receive remove render result Says Professor secure slavery social democracy social labor social production Socialism and Social Socialist society tion to-day toil trust United wages waste wealth workers workmen
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Página 169 - Why, then, and for what are we waiting? There are three words to speak: We will it...
Página 170 - Come, then, let us cast off fooling, and put by ease and rest, For the Cause alone is worthy till the good days bring the best. Come, join in the only battle wherein no man can fail, Where whoso fadeth and dieth, yet his deed shall still prevail. Ah! come, cast off all fooling, for this, at least, we know: That the Dawn and the Day is coming, and forth the Banners go.
Página 60 - He unroofs the houses, and ships the population to America. The nation is accustomed to the instantaneous creation of wealth. It is the maxim of their economists, "that the greater part in value of the wealth now existing in England, has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months.
Página 169 - Come hither, lads, and hearken, for a tale there is to tell, Of the wonderful days a-coming, when all shall be better than well. And the tale shall be told of a country, a land in the midst of the sea, And folk shall call it England in the days that are going to be. There more than one in a thousand in the days that are yet to come, Shall have some hope of the morrow, some joy of the ancient home. For then laugh not, but listen...
Página 10 - To replace the system of private capital (ie the speculative method of production, regulated on behalf of society only by the free competition of private enterprises) by a system of collective capital, that is, by a method of production which would introduce a unified (social or collective) organization of national labour, on the basis of collective or common ownership of the means of production by all the members of the society.
Página 86 - Now, Dives daily feasted and was gorgeously arrayed, — Not at all because he liked it, but because 'twas good for trade ; That the people might have calico he clothed himself in silk, And surfeited himself on cream that they might have more milk.
Página 60 - The greater part, in value, of the wealth now existing in England, has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months. A very small proportion indeed of that large aggregate was in existence ten years ago ; — of the present productive capital of the country, scarcely any part except farm-houses and...
Página 88 - The manufacture of boots and shoes offers some very wonderful facts in this connection. In one large and long-established manufactory the proprietors testify that it would require five hundred persons, working by hand processes, to make as many women's boots and shoes as a hundred persons now make with the aid of machinery— a displacement of eighty per cent.
Página 26 - Twenty per cent of the wealth of the United States is owned by three-one-hundredths of one per cent of the population; seventy-one per cent is owned by nine per cent of the families, and twenty-nine per cent of the wealth is all that falls to ninetyone per cent of the population.