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$8 worth army average Bernard de Mandeville called capi capitalism capitalist capitalist system cent Charles Edward Russell civilization class struggle collective ownership commodity consequently constitute consume corruption cost demand developed dividends economic effort enslaved entire established evil fact factories force franchises gain grant industrial system instance institutions interests KERR & COMPANY labor market labor-power labor's product least levy live machine machinery manhood mass matter means medium ment mental methods millions nation nature necessity organized owner parasitic elements party political possession possible present system private ownership private property privilege productive labor productiveness of labor profit prohibition party public ownership railroads railways retail rich Robert Hunter Senator slave slavery Socialism Socialist solely sort sources of subsistence struggle surplus system of industry talist things thousands tion toil unemployed use-values wage wealth workers
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Page 60 - From what has been said, it is manifest that in a free nation where slaves are not allowed of the surest wealth consists in a multitude of laborious poor. For besides that they are the never-failing nursery of fleets and armies, without them there could be no enjoyment, and no product of any country could be valuable. To make the society...
Page 18 - The value, or WORTH of a man, is as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power : and therefore is not absolute ; but a thing dependent on the need and judgment of another.
Page 60 - ... it is the interest of all rich nations, that the greatest part of the poor should almost never be idle, and yet continually spend what they get.
Page 78 - For ten or eleven hours a day these children of ten and eleven years stoop over the chute and pick out the slate and other impurities from the coal as it moves past them. The air is black with coal dust, and the roar of the crushers, screens, and rushing mill-race of coal is deafening. Sometimes one of the children falls into the machinery and is terribly mangled, or slips into the chute and is smothered to death. Many children are killed in this way. Many others, after a time, contract coal-miner's...
Page 180 - You are welcome to use the schoolhouse to debate all proper questions in, but such things as railroads and telegraphs are impossibilities and rank infidelity. There is nothing in the Word of God about them. If God had designed that His intelligent creatures should travel at the frightful speed of fifteen miles an hour, by steam, He would have clearly foretold it through His holy prophets. It is a device of Satan to lead immortal souls down to Hell.
Page 123 - The private soldiers fight and die, to advance the wealth and luxury of the great; and they are called masters of the world, while they have not a foot of ground in their possession.
Page 18 - The world over, when it becomes customary for the wife, or wife and children, to work in factories, it very soon becomes necessary for them to do so to support the family.
Page 13 - A thing can be useful, and the product of human labour, without being a commodity. Whoever directly satisfies his wants with the produce of his own labour, creates, indeed, use-values, but not commodities. In order to produce the latter, he must not only produce use-values, but use-values for others, social use-values.
Page 40 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Page 41 - History discloses no tragedy more horrible than the gradual extinction of the English hand-loom weavers, an extinction that was spread over several decades, and finally sealed in 1838.