Modern SocialismCommonwealth Company, 1897 - 179 páginas |
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... true of agriculture . Small farms are con- stantly decreasing as improved methods are applied to farm- ing . The result of this concentration is a tremendous in- crease of large capitalists . While it is true that profits and interest ...
... true of agriculture . Small farms are con- stantly decreasing as improved methods are applied to farm- ing . The result of this concentration is a tremendous in- crease of large capitalists . While it is true that profits and interest ...
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... true of the carpenters , masons , etc. In each of these fields , the employers are often in financial embarrass- ment , and the press of competition is so great that most of them succumb in a time of crisis . On the other hand , the ...
... true of the carpenters , masons , etc. In each of these fields , the employers are often in financial embarrass- ment , and the press of competition is so great that most of them succumb in a time of crisis . On the other hand , the ...
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... ( true , many capitalists work , but their renumeration for that has nothing to do with their income as capitalists ) , may have to divide his surplus with the land - owner and banker , provided he does not own all the means necessary ...
... ( true , many capitalists work , but their renumeration for that has nothing to do with their income as capitalists ) , may have to divide his surplus with the land - owner and banker , provided he does not own all the means necessary ...
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... true process of capitalist accumulations , - that of the absorption of surplus - value . Most of the arguments given in support of interest are flimsy indeed . We are told that interest is a reward for ab- stinence . But why should a ...
... true process of capitalist accumulations , - that of the absorption of surplus - value . Most of the arguments given in support of interest are flimsy indeed . We are told that interest is a reward for ab- stinence . But why should a ...
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... true reason for interest . It is a part of the appropriation and , therefore , under the present system , perfectly proper . Capitalists working under this an- archical social system are not to be blamed for this appro- priation ; to do ...
... true reason for interest . It is a part of the appropriation and , therefore , under the present system , perfectly proper . Capitalists working under this an- archical social system are not to be blamed for this appro- priation ; to do ...
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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.