Historical Progress And Ideal Socialism; An Evening Discourse Delivered to the British Association At Oxford in the Sheldonian Theatre, 13th August 1894
Historical Progress And Ideal Socialism; An Evening Discourse Delivered to the British Association At Oxford in the Sheldonian Theatre, 13th August 1894
Nicholson, J. Shield (Joseph Shield), 1850-1927
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It seems so simple, so pleasant, so nice, to think of the State owning all the land and capital and distributing the proceeds according to needs or deserts, and it looks as if we had got rid of taxation altogether. In reality on this system — expressed in terms of taxes — every one might be said to pay away all his earnings as poor rates, and receive an allowance of out-door relief. But whatever might be the final result, there is no doubt about the period of transition from the present system ...to the ideal. If in the meantime socialism is to be regarded as a tendency — as a guide to political action — it can only operate through increasing as rapidly and as much as pos- sible the taxes on land and capital, and Digitized by Google IDEAL SOCIALISM 33 the higher forms of professional income. No better device could be imagined for checking industrial progress, as is proved by the history of every country. It would be to introduce a creeping paralysis; and, when the time was considered ripe for taking over the land and capital, the land would be a wilderness, and the capital old iron.
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