Signs of Change : Seven Lectures Delivered On Various Occasions
Signs of Change : Seven Lectures Delivered On Various Occasions
Morris, William, 1834-1896
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In other words, our society includes a great mass of slaves, who must be fed, clothed, housed and amused as slaves^ and that their daily necessity compels them to make the slave-wares whose use is the perpetuation of their slavery. To sum up, then, concerning the manner of work in civilized States, these States are composed of three classes — a class which does not even pretend to work, a class which pretends to work but which produces nothing, and a class which works, but is compelled by the o...ther two classes to do work -which is often unproductive. Useful Work versus Useless Toil. 151 Civilization therefore wastes its own resources, and will do so as long as the present system lasts. These are cold words with which to describe the tyranny under which we suffer ; try then to con- sider what they mean. There is a certain amount of natural material and of natural forces in the world, and a certain amount of labour-power inherent in the persons of the men that inhabit it Men urged by their necessities and desires have laboured for many thousands of years at the task of subjugating the forces of Nature and of making the natural material useful to them.
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