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... capital . Concentration of capital is equivalent to the perfection of machinery . This has for its effect to reduce the quantities of labor power the Pacific , -graduated from Columbia College in 1878 he took both the prizes in ...
... capital . Concentration of capital is equivalent to the perfection of machinery . This has for its effect to reduce the quantities of labor power the Pacific , -graduated from Columbia College in 1878 he took both the prizes in ...
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... capital for the future definitive coöperative civilization . The Tucker group of Anarchists referred to by Prof. De Leon learned their dogmas from the teacher of the idea that " property is robbery , " Proudhon , the mental father of ...
... capital for the future definitive coöperative civilization . The Tucker group of Anarchists referred to by Prof. De Leon learned their dogmas from the teacher of the idea that " property is robbery , " Proudhon , the mental father of ...
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... capital punishment . " The first portion of the second " political demand " given above may sound very radical to many ears , but some of the founders of the American republic thought differently . Those who object had better study up a ...
... capital punishment . " The first portion of the second " political demand " given above may sound very radical to many ears , but some of the founders of the American republic thought differently . Those who object had better study up a ...
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... capital of ten dollars . I will not recount the scoffs and jeers which greeted his uncouth appearance as he went from printing office to printing office in search of work ; how most unwillingly and by a mere 30 HORACE GREELEY .
... capital of ten dollars . I will not recount the scoffs and jeers which greeted his uncouth appearance as he went from printing office to printing office in search of work ; how most unwillingly and by a mere 30 HORACE GREELEY .
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... capital is related , —— cannot do justice to his hard , cruel childhood and early manhood , which helped to make him a Socialist . Horace Greeley , " born of republican parentage , of an ancestry which participated vividly in the hopes ...
... capital is related , —— cannot do justice to his hard , cruel childhood and early manhood , which helped to make him a Socialist . Horace Greeley , " born of republican parentage , of an ancestry which participated vividly in the hopes ...
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Page 92 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing, any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 91 - If there be in it statements or assumptions of fact which I may know to be erroneous, I do not now and here controvert them. If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here argue against them. If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right. " As to the policy I ' seem to be pursuing,' as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.
Page 25 - The social problem of the future we considered to be, how to unite the greatest individual liberty of action, with a common ownership in the raw material of the globe, and an equal participation of all in the benefits of combined labour.
Page 59 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Page 92 - I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 21 - The time Is fast coming when, In the natural course of social evolution, this system, through the destructive action of its failures and crises on the one hand, and the constructive tendencies of Its trusts and other capitalistic combinations on the other hand, shall have worked out Its own downfall.
Page 228 - And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!
Page 318 - A struggle is going on in all the nations of the civilized world, between the oppressors and the oppressed of all countries, a struggle between the Capitalist and the Laborer, which grows in intensity from year to year...
Page 92 - Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors ; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal...
Page 82 - Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many - they are few.