The Rise and Progress of DemocracyZalaz Corporation, 1915 - 67 pages |
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... political creed , while Europeans , at least of a certain advanced type , think of democracy in a more purely social sense . In this paper we shall interpret the word , in order to meet all exigencies , as broadly as possible and ...
... political creed , while Europeans , at least of a certain advanced type , think of democracy in a more purely social sense . In this paper we shall interpret the word , in order to meet all exigencies , as broadly as possible and ...
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... political power was exercised by an hereditary monarch and his appointed officials . Such a monarchy need not leave the welfare of the people out of considera- tion , but the danger that it will do so is always great and in France the ...
... political power was exercised by an hereditary monarch and his appointed officials . Such a monarchy need not leave the welfare of the people out of considera- tion , but the danger that it will do so is always great and in France the ...
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... political control ? What cared he for the people and their con- fused dream of liberty and equality ? He satisfied the prevailing clamor for security of life and property - so much must readily be conceded - but having popularized ...
... political control ? What cared he for the people and their con- fused dream of liberty and equality ? He satisfied the prevailing clamor for security of life and property - so much must readily be conceded - but having popularized ...
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... political equality , they have been chiefly concerned with safe - guarding their precious heritage against infringement , while Europe , characterized by enormous inequalities among individuals and classes in- herited from the feudal ...
... political equality , they have been chiefly concerned with safe - guarding their precious heritage against infringement , while Europe , characterized by enormous inequalities among individuals and classes in- herited from the feudal ...
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... political role than had thus far been conceded by the gentleman class in control of the government . The industrial ascendancy of England was no sooner established than a score and more of forces appeared so disruptive of all that the ...
... political role than had thus far been conceded by the gentleman class in control of the government . The industrial ascendancy of England was no sooner established than a score and more of forces appeared so disruptive of all that the ...
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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.