Communism in America

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H. Holt and Company, 1879 - 86 стор.
 

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Сторінка 20 - No sagacious man will long retain his sagacity if he live exclusively among reformers and progressive people, without periodically returning into the settled system of things to correct himself by a new observation from that old stand-point.
Сторінка 43 - Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes.
Сторінка 20 - It struck me as rather odd, that one of the first questions raised, after our separation from the greedy, struggling, self-seeking world, should relate to the possibility of getting the advantage over the outside barbarians, in their own field of labor. But, to own the truth, I very soon became sensible, that, as regarded society at large, we stood in a position of new hostility, rather than new brotherhood.
Сторінка 6 - ... in stock, and in the division shall receive a double share. 3. The persons transported and the adventurers shall continue their joint stock and partnership...
Сторінка 80 - Modern democracies will only escape the destiny of ancient democracies by adopting laws such as shall secure the distribution of property among a large number of holders, and shall establish a very general equality of condition.
Сторінка 58 - All industrial enterprises to be placed under the control of the Government as fast as practicable and operated by free cooperative...
Сторінка 7 - That such persons as die before the seven years be expired, their executors to have their parts or shares, at the division ; proportionally to the time of their life in the colony. " 10. That all such persons as are of the colony, are to have meat, drink, and apparel out of the common stock and goods of the said colony.
Сторінка 44 - ... ever-increasing hoards of wealth, opening to the wealthy enchanted realms of idleness, luxury and waste — laying on the labourer, generation after generation, increasing burdens of toil, destitution, and despair; a society in which capital has created a gospel of its own, and claims for the good of society a divine right of selfishness, the right to exert its powers at will indefinitely for the indulgence of its own desires, rebelling against any social control, and offering up 'with a light...
Сторінка 8 - It was therefore thought best that every man should use the best diligence he could for his own preservation, both in respect of the time present, and to prepare his own Corn for the year following...
Сторінка 44 - That religion is the faith that capital and its holders must adapt themselves to nobler uses, or they had better cease to exist. A society in which generation after generation passes away, consolidating vast and ever-increasing hoards of wealth, opening to the wealthy enchanted realms of idleness, luxury, and waste ; laying on the labourer, generation after generation, increasing burdens of toil, destitution, and despair ; a society in which capital has created a gospel of its own, and claims for...

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