Das Konkursverfahren

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Identifikator:: 898983401

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-14637

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Stern, Bruno http://d-nb.info/gnd/124543715

Title:: Das Konkursverfahren

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Verlag von G.A. Gloeckner

Year of publication:: 1914

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 160 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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32 THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. encroaching little by little upon the lands of the small farmeis, drove the surplus population into the towns, free indeed, but deprived of the means of labour, and, consequently, forced to place themselves at the service of those who had the means of labour at their disposal. The suppression of individual handicrafts and the invention of machinery have favoured the development of the large industrial system, in which a few capitalists, becoming more and more powerful, employ an ever- increasing army of proletarians. Every augmentation of capital calls for a proportionate increase in the number of workmen. “ The accumulation of wealth at one pole of society advances step by step with an accumulation, at the other pole, of the poverty, servitude, and moral degradation of the class which, out of its produce, brings capital into existence.” As we read Marx’s book and feel ourselves shut up within the iron bars of his logic, we are, as it were, a prey to a night mare, because, having admitted his premises, which are borrowed from the most undoubted authorities, we know not how to escape from his conclusions, and because, at the same time, his wide and solid learning enables him to quote in support of his theses striking extracts from a crowd of authors and numerous telling facts, drawn from Parliamentary inquiries and from the industrial and agricultural history of England. And yet, when we go to the bottom of the matter and look around us, we perceive that we have been enveloped in a skilful tissue of errors and subtleties, intermingled with a few truths. Never theless, it is not easy to release ourselves, and if we admit the theory of value circulated by Smith, Ricardo, Bastiat, and Carey, we cannot do so without contradicting ourselves. M. Maurice Block has tried to refute the chief basis of Marx’s system, which consists in the assertion that the labourer produces his subsistence by the work of only a part of the day, while the other part is monopolized by the employer, who keeps the fruits of it for himself without compensation. The fact alleged by Marx is, however, incontestable. It is perfectly true that the employer does not give and cannot give to the employé the full value of the product, for if he did, where could he obtain the means of paying the interest on his capital, the rent

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