Communism in America

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H. Holt, 1879 - 86 psl.

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29 psl. - 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.
6 psl. - 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.
66 psl. - 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.
44 psl. - All industrial enterprises to be placed under the control of the Government as fast as practicable and operated by free cooperative...
30 psl. - ... 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...
30 psl. - 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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