The Rise and Progress of DemocracyZalaz Corporation, 1915 - 67 pages |
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... capital , and these men naturally became masters of the situation paying what wages they pleased and exacting as many hours of labor as they could . An economic oppression , which in this first phase was terrible and unlimited , was the ...
... capital , and these men naturally became masters of the situation paying what wages they pleased and exacting as many hours of labor as they could . An economic oppression , which in this first phase was terrible and unlimited , was the ...
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... capital and labor began to wage their historic battle on somewhat more equal terms and the next one hundred years were destined to see a very important improvement in the position of the wage - earners without , however , shaking the ...
... capital and labor began to wage their historic battle on somewhat more equal terms and the next one hundred years were destined to see a very important improvement in the position of the wage - earners without , however , shaking the ...
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... capital and labor . In the face of the hardships and sufferings of the working classes France , in close imitation of England , experienced a growth of the philanthropic sense among the middle classes , together with the self ...
... capital and labor . In the face of the hardships and sufferings of the working classes France , in close imitation of England , experienced a growth of the philanthropic sense among the middle classes , together with the self ...
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... capital was by the direct action and revolt of the workingmen and for this reason he carried his agitation down into their circles . Blessed with grandiloquent speech and a not in- considerable organizing talent he brought about the ...
... capital was by the direct action and revolt of the workingmen and for this reason he carried his agitation down into their circles . Blessed with grandiloquent speech and a not in- considerable organizing talent he brought about the ...
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... capital and labor in all modern countries . In the writer's view the latest phase in the develop- ment of democracy is best illustrated first , by examining the most recent phase of the struggle of labor against capital , and second ...
... capital and labor in all modern countries . In the writer's view the latest phase in the develop- ment of democracy is best illustrated first , by examining the most recent phase of the struggle of labor against capital , and second ...
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Page 54 - The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his 'natural superiors', and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous 'cash payment'.
Page 2 - CIVILIZATION, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
Page 54 - The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage laborers.
Page 54 - Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air...
Page 55 - The bourgeoisie during its rule of scarce one hundred years has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. Subjection of nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalization of rivers...
Page 55 - The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life.
Page 57 - The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the bourgeoisie, replaces the isolation of the laborers, due to competition, by their revolutionary combination due to association. The development of Modern Industry therefore cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.
Page 55 - Subjection of Nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalization of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground — what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labor?
Page 56 - ... live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.
Page 56 - The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feudalism to the ground are now turned against the bourgeoisie itself. But not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself ; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons, — the modern working class, the proletarians.