Living in the Twentieth Century a Consideration of How We Got This Way
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All would give him credit for having called attention to the fact that the capitalistic manufacturer or merchant is not wholly respon- sible for the evils and misery of the present order. Some of the vitality of the single-tax discussion has, however, been subsequently destroyed by changed economic conditions, particularly the decrease in the relative importance of landed as compared with other forms of wealth, and the growing fluidity and legal elusiveness of the present modes of landholding. ...268 LIVING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY XIV. BOURGEOIS ATTEMPTS TO ABSORB THE RADICAL PROLETARIAN MOVEMENTS It could scarcely be supposed that the middle class would sit by and idly contemplate the growth of these threatening proletarian programs and movements without attempting to counteract them without trying, as one thinker has ex- pressed it, "to set a backfire. ' 7 Probably the chief instru- ment which has been used has been state socialism, or legis- lation designed to aid and placate the laboring class, while retaining the essence of the capitalistic system, though it must not be forgotten that much state socialism has been a result of proletarian or landlord attacks upon the middle class.
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