Socialism and Character

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Houghton Mifflin, 1912 - Broj stranica: 428
 

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Stranica 56 - 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. And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an overriding law. It is unfit to rule because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its...
Stranica 163 - The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
Stranica 76 - That proposition is, that in every historical epoch, the prevailing mode of economic production and exchange, and the social organization necessarily following from it, form the basis upon which is built up, and from which alone can be explained, the political and intellectual history of that epoch...
Stranica 292 - You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population ; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths.
Stranica 205 - Take from me the way of lying : and cause thou me to make much of thy law.
Stranica 57 - 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.
Stranica 76 - ... without, at the same time, and once and for all, emancipating society at large from all exploitation, oppression, ^ class distinctions and class struggles.
Stranica 372 - The Vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my Vision's Greatest Enemy...
Stranica 12 - O where is the battle ! Neither battle I see, nor arraying, nor King in Israel, Only infinite jumble and mess and dislocation, Backed by a solemn appeal, ' For God's sake, do not stir, there...
Stranica 324 - The East bow'd low before the blast In patient, deep disdain; She let the legions thunder past, And 'plunged in thought again.

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