The History of the Fabian SocietyFifield, 1916 - 288 стор. |
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Сторінка 24 - If, therefore, the choice were to be made between Communism with all its chances, and the present state of society with all its sufferings and injustices; if the institution of private property necessarily carried with it as a consequence, that the produce of labour should be apportioned as we now see it, almost in an inverse ratio to the labour...
Сторінка 24 - ... the largest portions to those who have never worked at all, the next largest to those whose work is almost nominal, and so in a descending scale, the remuneration dwindling as the work grows harder and more disagreeable, until the most fatiguing and exhausting bodily labour cannot count with certainty on being able to earn even the necessaries of life; if this, or Communism, were the alternative, all the difficulties, great or small, of Communism would be but as dust in the balance.
Сторінка 34 - The members of the Society assert that the competitive system assures the happiness and comfort of the few at the expense of the suffering of the many and that Society must be reconstituted in such a manner as to secure the general welfare and happiness.
Сторінка 24 - We are too ignorant either of what individual agency in its best form, or Socialism in its best form, can accomplish, to be qualified to decide which of the two will be the ultimate form of human society.
Сторінка 136 - The notion that a nation has a right to do what it pleases with its own territory, without reference to the interests of the rest of the world is no more tenable from the International Socialist point of view — that is...
Сторінка 80 - Co-operation, Democracy, the Division of Society into Classes, and the Suitability of Human Nature to Systems of Just Distribution, that I was able to handle Social Democracy as it must be handled before it can be preached in such a way as to present it to every sort of man from his own particular point of view.
Сторінка 45 - That the State should compete with private individuals - especially with parents - in providing happy homes for children, so that every child may have a refuge from the tyranny or neglect of its natural custodians. That Men no longer need special political privileges to protect them against Women and that the sexes should henceforth enjoy equal political rights.
Сторінка 44 - Nationalization of the Land in some form is a public duty. That the pretensions of Capitalism to encourage Invention, and to distribute its benefits in the fairest way attainable, have been discredited by the experience of the nineteenth century. That, under the existing system of leaving the National Industry to organize itself, Competition has the effect of rendering adulteration, dishonest dealing, and inhumanity compulsory.
Сторінка 52 - ORGANIZE,' was to bring about a tremendous smash-up of existing society, to be succeeded by complete Socialism. And this meant that D we had no true practical understanding either of existing society or Socialism. Without being quite definitely aware of this, we yet felt it to a certain extent all along ; for it was at this period that we contracted the invaluable habit of freely laughing at ourselves which has always distinguished us, and which has saved us from becoming hampered by the gushing...
Сторінка 249 - Society endeavours to pursue its Socialist and Democratic objects with complete singleness of aim. For example : It has no distinctive opinions on the Marriage Question, Religion" Art, abstract Economics (!), historic Evolution, Currency, or any other subject than its own special business of practical Democracy and Socialism.