The Socialism of to-day

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Identifikator:: 835096955

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-28834

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Laveleye, Émile de

Title:: The Socialism of to-day

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Field & Tuer

Year of publication:: 1884

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XLIV, 331 S.)

Collection:: Economics Books

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INTRODUCTION. XXXIX this country, the tendency of industrial progress, on the sup position that the present separation between individual classes is maintained, is toward an inequality greater still.” * When, viewing from a distance and without bias the dis tribution of the good things of this world, one sees, on the one side, the workers reduced to the bare necessaries of life—not obtaining even them at the least crisis—and, on the other, the Idle and independent classes, in increasing numbers, enjoying more and more refined comfort, it is impossible to pronounce this state of things conformable to justice, and we are forced to eimlaim with Bossuet, “The murmurs of the poor are just. Tierefore, O Lord, this inequality of conditions ? ” Doubtless It may be answered that it has always been so, and cannot be otherwise ; but this argument satisfies those only whose privileges are thus confirmed. ^ SodaHsm demands that the labourer should reap the whole ru.ts of his labour, and nothing seems more just. Still, if the ranhT '7'?f help of two other factors, land and Jital, and if these do not belong to the labourer, he cannot retoin the entire product. Each factor must be rewarded, othemise it will refuse its aid. The solution consists in uniting he three factors m the same person mm " of Poliliral Economy " (1874), p. 340.

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