The Old FreedomB.W. Huebsch, 1919 - 176 Seiten |
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... ment , on pain of imprisonment and outlawry . The peasantry rose in revolt . Then in 1360 there came one who preached what seemed , to the ruling class , to be a new doctrine . Though a mild form of com- munism is suggested in the ...
... ment , on pain of imprisonment and outlawry . The peasantry rose in revolt . Then in 1360 there came one who preached what seemed , to the ruling class , to be a new doctrine . Though a mild form of com- munism is suggested in the ...
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... ment of landlords determined to wrest all common land from the people and enclose and add it to their estates . They saw then that so long as the serfs were free to use the common fields and wastes , wages must be high and prices low ...
... ment of landlords determined to wrest all common land from the people and enclose and add it to their estates . They saw then that so long as the serfs were free to use the common fields and wastes , wages must be high and prices low ...
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... ment stated in 1512. Beggars were whipped , and burned through the tough part of the ear . As many as three and four hundred a year died on the gal- lows . The poor law legislation of Elizabeth made every parish liable for the ...
... ment stated in 1512. Beggars were whipped , and burned through the tough part of the ear . As many as three and four hundred a year died on the gal- lows . The poor law legislation of Elizabeth made every parish liable for the ...
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... ment was simple enough . Usually a great landlord , or his agents , got up a petition , signed by his people on the spot , describing the " ill - condition " of the land common to the people , their " lack of knowl- edge " of ...
... ment was simple enough . Usually a great landlord , or his agents , got up a petition , signed by his people on the spot , describing the " ill - condition " of the land common to the people , their " lack of knowl- edge " of ...
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... to have been incapable of profiting by each other's social and economic errors . Each of them reproduced , even in detail , the same scheme , and they all died bankrupt . " Whenever I look back to the systems of govern- ment [ 67 ]
... to have been incapable of profiting by each other's social and economic errors . Each of them reproduced , even in detail , the same scheme , and they all died bankrupt . " Whenever I look back to the systems of govern- ment [ 67 ]
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American labourer basis Britain called capitalist century coal commodities consider definition democracy democratic desire economic principles employers enclosure England English labourer equal exchange exchange-value exploit factors in production favour force FRANCIS NEILSON freedom fundamental Georges Sorel Herbert Spencer historians ideas individual industry interest justice Karl Marx labour and capital Labour party land landlords Lecky legislation liberty Marx mass matter Max Hirsch means of production ment mind monopoly value natural rights nominal wage official organized ownership Parliament passed peasant political means politicians poor profit question railways reform revolution says schemes of nationalization Schwab seems slaves Socialism socialist society Sorel Spargo Spencer strike surplus value Syndicalism Syndicalist taxation tells theory things tion Tory trade union true democracy use-values village wealth WOODROW WILSON workers
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Seite 22 - He kept me to school or else I had not been able to have preached before the king's majesty now.
Seite 133 - A commodity is, in the first place, an object outside us, a thing that by its properties satisfies human wants of some sort or another.
Seite 75 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them.
Seite 118 - We see then that that which determines the magnitude of the value of any article is the amount of labour socially necessary, or the labour-time socially necessary for its production.
Seite 22 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Seite 154 - We are in a temper to reconstruct economic society, as we were once in a temper to reconstruct political society, and political society may itself undergo a radical modification in the process. I doubt if any age was ever more conscious of its task or more unanimously desirous of radical and extended changes in its economic and political practice.
Seite 165 - We stand in the presence of a revolution — not a bloody revolution; America is not given to the spilling of blood — but a silent revolution, whereby America will insist upon recovering in practice those ideals which she has always professed, upon securing a government devoted to the general interest and not to special interests.
Seite 175 - Distress everywhere makes the labourer mutinous and discontented, and inclines him to listen with eagerness to agitators who tell him that it is a monstrous iniquity that one man should have a million while another cannot get a full meal.
Seite 56 - ... which should normally be the heir to all private riches in excess of a quite moderate amount by way of family provision. But all this will not suffice. It will be imperative at the earliest possible moment to free the nation from at any rate the greater part of its new load .of...
Seite 119 - The fact that half a day's labour is necessary to keep the labourer alive during twenty-four hours, does not in any way prevent him from working a whole day. Therefore, the value of labour-power, and the value which that labour-power creates in the labour-process, are two entirely different magnitudes...