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50 cents A. M. Simons American History began Bow's Review capital capitalist class Chap Charles H chattel slave owners chattel slavery Civil class struggle Cloth commercial convention cotton debtor class debts demand economic edition Edward Carpenter England Ernest Untermann ethics Europe existence facts fight force Frederick Engels frontier growth Holst important Industrial History interests International Socialist Review Joseph Dietzgen Karl Kautsky Karl Marx Kerr labor movement labor power land laws manufacturing McMaster ment Mississippi valley national government negro North northern organization panic Paper Paul Lafargue philosophy planters plutocracy political production profits railroads Reconstruction Republican party Revolution rise Robert Blatchford Schouler small capitalist socialist movement society South southern story strike style surplus value tariff Thaddeus Stevens theory tion trade Translated by Ernest United volume vote wage slave Wilhelm Liebknecht Wood Simons workers
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Page 48 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Page 21 - That the property of the United States, has been protected from the confiscations of Britain by the joint exertions of all, and therefore ought to be the common property of all. And he that attempts opposition to this creed is an enemy to equity and justice, and ought to be swept from off the face of the earth.
Page 58 - But they could not monopolize the markets, unless they could obtain a cheap supply of food and clothing for their negroes, and raise their cotton at such reduced prices as to undersell their rivals. A manufacturing population, with its mechanical coadjutors, in the midst of the provision growers, on a scale such as the Protective policy contemplated, it was conceived, would create a permanent market for their products, and enhance the price; whereas, if this manufacturing could be prevented, and...
Page 25 - What matters it whether a landlord employing ten laborers on his farm gives them annually as much money as will buy them the necessaries of life, or gives them those necessaries at short hand?
Page 24 - If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government to support these valuable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.
Page 1 - If entrusted with the powers of government. 7. Socialism, Utopian and Scientific. By Frederick Engels. Translated by Edward Aveling, D. Sc., with a Special Introduction by the Author. Cloth, 50 cents. This book ranks next to the Communist Manifesto as one of the best short statements In any language of the fundamental principles of socialism.
Page 1 - England," but giving a far more adequate and scientific account of the subject. 11. Manifesto of the Communist Party. By Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Authorized English Translation: Edited and Annotated by Frederick Engels. Also included in the same volume, No Compromise: No Political Trading. By Wilhelm Liebknecht. Translated by AM Simons and Marcus Hitch.
Page 23 - The government we mean to erect is intended to last for ages. The landed interest, at present, is prevalent ; but in process of time, when...