Our Destiny: the Influence of Socialism On Morals And Religion; An Essay in ...
Our Destiny: the Influence of Socialism On Morals And Religion; An Essay in ...
Gronlund, Laurence, 1846-1899
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I do not believe in the latter ; it seems curious to me that they who suggest it cannot see that this would be highly unjust, since men have very different needs and wants. Communism is far more just, since it would give to Digitized by Google The Social Bond, 43 everybody according to his needs, but this is altogether too generous. Society could not stand such generosity. The next is a higher form of equality : social rather than economic ; that is to say, aU citizens will he independent of ea...ch other^ but all equally dependent on the commonwealth. It was for this social equality that the cry burst out in the eighteenth century, no longer a barren phrase, an abstraction of jurists and philosophers, but a fiery, living force, taking possession of the hearts of men. It has sunk deep into the soul of our century and entered into aU the master spirits of the age. We have already seen that the most invidious powers of the prosperous classes now are these two : that the giving or the withholding of employment is a matter of arbitrary favour and that they have the right to arbitrarily discharge their employees.
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