Socialism in Thought and ActionMacmillan, 1920 - 546 pages |
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Page 19
... existence by the struggle of various com- petitive sellers to reach the consumer , " 20 and which could largely be eliminated under a coöperative system of in- dustry . Much of this matter is misleading ; some of it , issued for the ...
... existence by the struggle of various com- petitive sellers to reach the consumer , " 20 and which could largely be eliminated under a coöperative system of in- dustry . Much of this matter is misleading ; some of it , issued for the ...
Page 56
... existence of the sys- tem . The bourgeoisie manages each time to overcome them by the destruction of a mass of productive forces , by the conquest of new markets , and by the more thorough exploitation of old ones . It is , however ...
... existence of the sys- tem . The bourgeoisie manages each time to overcome them by the destruction of a mass of productive forces , by the conquest of new markets , and by the more thorough exploitation of old ones . It is , however ...
Page 57
... existence the modern working class . The modern worker , with the development of machinery , is losing individual character . Instead of benefiting by the increased production he is becoming ever more bur- dened , either through " the ...
... existence the modern working class . The modern worker , with the development of machinery , is losing individual character . Instead of benefiting by the increased production he is becoming ever more bur- dened , either through " the ...
Page 59
... existence to the workers , and the ever greater power of the producer on the political and economic field , cut “ from under its feet the very foundation on which the bour- geoisie produces and appropriates products . What the ...
... existence to the workers , and the ever greater power of the producer on the political and economic field , cut “ from under its feet the very foundation on which the bour- geoisie produces and appropriates products . What the ...
Page 72
... existence . " The stockholders are absentee owners in most instances totally ignorant of the conduct of the corporation . The Board of Directors of the large corporations maintain supervision only over the financial phase of the ...
... existence . " The stockholders are absentee owners in most instances totally ignorant of the conduct of the corporation . The Board of Directors of the large corporations maintain supervision only over the financial phase of the ...
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Page 10 - 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.
Page 69 - The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.
Page 69 - The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.
Page 69 - In the earlier epochs of history we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank.
Page 99 - The lower strata of the middle class — the small tradespeople, shopkeepers, and retired tradesmen generally, the handicraftsmen and peasants — all these sink gradually into the proletariat, partly because their diminutive capital does not suffice for the scale on which modern industry is carried on, and is swamped in the competition with the large capitalists, partly because their specialised skill is rendered worthless by new methods of production. Thus the proletariat is recruited from all...
Page 108 - ... grows the mass of misery, oppression, slavery, degradation, exploitation; but with this too grows the revolt of the working-class, a class always increasing in numbers, and disciplined, united, organized by the very mechanism of the process of capitalist production itself.
Page 59 - 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 108 - The modern laborer, on the contrary, instead of rising with the progress of industry, sinks deeper and deeper below the conditions of existence of his own class. He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth.
Page 61 - ... the whole history of mankind (since the dissolution of primitive tribal society, holding land in common ownership) has been a history of class struggles, contests between exploiting and exploited, ruling and oppressed classes...
Page 69 - But the most common and durable source of factions, has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold, and those who are without property, have ever formed distinct interests in society.