Socialism: An Examination of Its Nature, Its Strength and Its W Eakness, with Suggestions for Social ReformT. Y. Crowell & Company, 1894 - 449 pages |
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Page 33 - The first act in which the state really comes forward as the representative of society as a whole — the taking possession of the means of production in the name of society — is at the same time its last independent act as a state.
Page 32 - The social problem of the future we considered to be, how to unite the greatest individual liberty of action, with a common ownership in the raw material of the globe, and an equal participation of all in the benefits of combined labour.
Page 134 - In the present stage of human progress, when ideas of equality are daily spreading more widely among the poorer classes, and can no longer be checked by anything short of the entire suppression of printed discussion and even of freedom of speech, it is not to be expected that the division of the human race into two hereditary classes, employers and employed, can be permanently maintained.
Page 229 - loved," and whom he bade to sell all that he had and give to the poor, and take up his cross and follow him. "Something very deep and beautiful might be made out of this...
Page 307 - When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
Page 378 - THE principle of the brotherhood of humanity is one of the eternal truths that govern the world's progress on lines which distinguish human nature from brute •nature.
Page 134 - We look in vain among the working classes in general for the just pride which will choose to give good work for good wages: for the most part, their sole endeavor is to receive as much, and return as little in the shape of service, as possible.
Page 72 - Does it require deep intuition to comprehend that man's ideas, views, and conceptions, in one word, man's consciousness, changes with every change in the conditions of his material existence, in his social relations and in his social life?
Page 59 - They put on record at the same time, however, that their object was the "collective ownership and control of the means of production, distribution, and exchange.
Page 383 - ... immediate prohibition of the liquor traffic for beverage purposes in the District of Columbia, in the Territories, and all places over which the...