| RightsWhenever any moral, ethical,
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| | striking till they get to eight hours."
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| political, or even economic question
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| | ["Eight Hours Must Come," by Robert Green
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| comes up, there is often a question of
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| | Ingersoll.] Adam Smith noted that in
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| rights involved. "Does the woman have
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| | China, the condition of the worker is so
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| the 'right' to abort her fetus?" or "Does
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| | degraded, that families are forced to
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| a man have the 'right' to kiss women he
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| | live in boats, and would welcome a
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| is not involved with?" or "Do
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| | stinking, putrid piece of meat as a
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| corporations have the 'right' to avoid
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| | godsend. He also noted that the wealth
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| paying livable wages?" Whatever it comes
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| | is so concentrated in the hands of the
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| down to, there is always the question of
| |
| | few, that families have to drown their
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| rights. In Capitalism, there is one
| |
| | infant children in water, because they
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| distinguishing right: the right to
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| | cannot feed them. ["Wealth of Nations,"
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| private property. In this system, a
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| | by Adam Smith, chapter 8.] Thomas
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| person can offer their property for sale
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| | Malthus also noticed this, "the custom of
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| at ANY price, can offer ANY price for the
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| | exposing children, which, in times of
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| property they want. It doesn't mean that
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| | distress, is probably more frequent than
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| someone will buy it, or that someone will
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| | is ever acknowledged to Europeans.
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| accept their offer. They simply have
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| | Relative to this barbarous practice, it
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| this one right: to set any price for the
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| | is difficult to avoid remarking, that
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| property they are selling, or to offer
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| | there cannot be a stronger proof of the
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| any price for the property they wish to
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| | distresses that have been felt by mankind
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| acquire. That is the basic premise of
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| | for want of food, than the existence of a
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| Capitalism.Communism, or Socialism, (at
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| | custom that thus violates the most
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| least the type that I am promoting) would
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| | natural principle of the human heart."
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| curtail this economic right. What are
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| | ["An Essay on the Principle of
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| the justifications or reasons for it?
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| | Population," by Thomas Malthus, Chapter
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| Well, there are two that I shall further
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| | 4.]Even today, the condition of the
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| elaborate upon... First, I believe that
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| | workers is horrid. Workers are paid
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| Communism is more capable of elevating a
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| | between 4% and 20% of the wealth they
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| person's status. Second, I believe that
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| | produce, with an exception in the Lodging
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| Communism grants a right that Capitalism
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| | industry (being closer to 37%). [U.S.
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| does not (that is, the right to the
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| | Census Bureau, 1997 Economic Census,
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| wealth of your own labor). Whether these
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| | Comparative Statistics, Core Business
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| reasons are justified, I will try to
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| | Stastitics Series, EC97X-C52, issued June
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| demonstrate in a concise, powerful
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| | 2000.] This translates to this... If a
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| manner, in the following
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| | person operates machinery for a
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| paragraphs....The Ancestral Roots of
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| | Capitalist, and produce enough products
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| Civilization and the Evolution of
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| | to make his employer $100,000, the worker
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| RightsWhen looking at society today, at
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| | -- that is, to say, the person who built
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| the big factories and the various outlet
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| | the machinery, who operated it, and then
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| stores, and seeing all that has come
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| | sold it -- would receive perhaps $15,000.
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| technologically, it can only fascinate
| |
| | But, this is given the best case
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| the human imagination. I admit to
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| | scenario.There are many more reasons to
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| looking at these wonders in awe. But,
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| | believe that this number is closer to
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| any person interested in society will
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| | $6,000 or $4,000. For instance, if a
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| have certain inquiries. Where did
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| | miner was REALLY paid 12% of the wealth
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| civilization come from?The Roman Empire
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| | they made, they would be making $40,820
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| is sometimes regarded as the starting
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| | per year. Now, it doesn't take much
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| point of Western Civilization, having its
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| | understanding of economics to see that
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| own roots in some Greek culture
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| | factory workers do not make this much per
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| (borrowing religion and philosophy).
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| | year. We must understand that CEOs are
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| Here, the word "Proletariat" was first
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| | paid greatly, yet what they are paid by
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| used, describing a soldier who went to a
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| | the company is also counted as pay roll.
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| far off land, captured slaves, and then
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| | Robert M. Delvin, for example, is
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| returned home, to find that he could not
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| | Chairman, President, and CEO of American
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| find employment, due to the abundance of
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| | General Corporation. He is an employee,
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| slaves. The word "Proletariat" would
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| | but in one year, he made over forty five
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| later be used by Marxists, to describe
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| | million dollars. [Source: The Houston
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| workers who had no property and could
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| | Chronicle.] When his payroll is averaged
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| only sell their labor. The number of
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| | in to all the other workers, then the 12%
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| slaves that were in Rome during its rise
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| | of all the wealth made by the workers
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| cannot be known for certain, for no
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| | means that the median average of each
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| official records were kept of slaves
| |
| | worker is about forty thousand. If
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| brought in to the city. But, modern
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| | Delvin worked for the retail trade
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| historians seem content with the idea
| |
| | industry, then that would mean that for
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| that 1/3rd of the population was enslaved
| |
| | his wage, there are 14,900 full time
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| -- 300,000 to 350,000 out of 900,000 to
| |
| | workers that are being paid $5.15 per
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| 1,000,000 people. When the Roman Empire
| |
| | hour. Most workers typically receive the
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| fell, a new political and economic system
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| | minimum wage, meaning they make $10,712
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| took place known as Feudalism.Feudalism
| |
| | per year. Now, a miner for the mining
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| entailed different rights and privileges.
| |
| | industry produces a great deal of wealth
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| The land was divided into fiefs and a
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| | compared to what he is paid. A miner
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| vassal was in charge of his parcel of
| |
| | makes, on average, makes $400,000 for his
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| land. Serfs were the peasants who
| |
| | employer, but he is paid only $10,000 per
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| labored for the wealth of their vassal.
| |
| | year. In this case, the worker receives
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| A serf was not allowed to leave his land
| |
| | 2.5% of the wealth in which he produces.
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| without proper permission to do so.
| |
| | If a farmer ploughed the field of 200
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| Feudalism developed from post-Roman
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| | crops, the Capitalist would turn around
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| estates filled with many slaves. Today,
| |
| | and give him 5 of them. How is it that
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| though, most liberal historians will
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| | the Capitalist can do this? Simple.
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| refer to serfs as "just a differnt type
| |
| | Because he owns the farm, he owns the
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| of slave," and this is quite
| |
| | tractor, he owns the tools, he owns the
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| true.However, the bondage of Feudalism
| |
| | land. And by what right can this be
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| could not last forever. A new way of
| |
| | done? By what doctrine? The right to
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| working and producing came into effect.
| |
| | property.Thus, what do we find? We find
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| And it came, as we have today, the
| |
| | two great, incontrovertible facts: (1)
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| industrial society. Various revolutions
| |
| | The laborers, the workers, are the
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| of the European nations took place, even
| |
| | producers of wealth. Without them, there
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| as late as the middle 1800's (such as the
| |
| | would be no food, there would be no iron
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| case of Germany). Eventually, Feudalism
| |
| | ore, there would be no tools. Without
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| was eliminated, the serf was liberated,
| |
| | them, there would not be the farms to
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| and freedom reigned. The crystaline dove
| |
| | grow the food, the mines to mine the ore,
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| of prosperity was on the land, and there
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| | and the factories to produce the tools.
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| was never again to be a cry of
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| | They are the sole creators of wealth.
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| brutality... or, at least, that is the
| |
| | (2) The condition of those who create
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| picture painted by many historians.The
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| | all the wealth is in such a horrid state.
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| rights of slaves in the Roman Empire was
| |
| | They are paid a subsistence wage,
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| simple: they had none. Well, there were
| |
| | remarkably below what they deserve to be
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| some laws dictating action to be done to
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| | paid. In "Demands of the Communist
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| slaves, certain protection measures, but
| |
| | Manifesto," Marx wrote that one of the
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| beyond that, they were as much slaves as
| |
| | first conditions of a just government is
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| Africans were for centuries in America.
| |
| | this: that child labor is immediately
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| The rights of serfs in the Feudal times
| |
| | eradicated, and that an education is
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| were much evolved from that of slavery.
| |
| | provided for them.More simply put...
|
| A serf worked, and a great deal of his
| |
| | Those who produce everything are given
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| produce went to his master. A serf was
| |
| | almost nothing. This is not justice.
|
| not allowed to leave his land without
| |
| | Capitalism has nearly reproduced
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| consent. Finally, we have Capitalism, or
| |
| | Feudalism, in such a manner that
|
| Free Enterprise, the system where a
| |
| | Feudalism nearly reproduced slavery. No
|
| worker can leave his land whenever he
| |
| | humane heart can look at these children,
|
| wants. But, is it real freedom, or is it
| |
| | growing deformed because they work for
|
| just the manifestation of slavery in
| |
| | their food, and say, "Ah, liberty! What
|
| another form?The Brutal Nature of
| |
| | a great godsend we have before us!" No
|
| CapitalismIn Feudalism, there were
| |
| | kind person can see the mass of workers,
|
| various classes, but two distinct ones:
| |
| | without hope, without heart, without
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| nobility and serfdom. The nobles did no
| |
| | meaning, working only that they may feed
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| manual labor yet they lavished in the
| |
| | themselves and pay their rent. And where
|
| wealth produced by peasants. In
| |
| | does their money go when they buy food or
|
| Capitalism, we see again the rise of two
| |
| | when they pay their rent? It goes
|
| distinct classes: the Bourgeoise and the
| |
| | directly back into the pockets of those
|
| Proletariat. The Bourgoise are the
| |
| | who exploited them. Perpetual poverty.
|
| capital-owning class, those who own the
| |
| | I detest Capitalism because of its
|
| means of production. They own the farms,
| |
| | inherent brutality. I am not alone.In
|
| the banks, the factories. The
| |
| | his "The Capitalist System," Bakunin
|
| Proletariat, however, own nothing. They
| |
| | wrote, "Thus the worker's liberty, so
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| have no farm land. They have no
| |
| | much exalted by the economists, jurists,
|
| factories. They do not even have food
| |
| | and bourgeois republicans, is only a
|
| for themselves. In essense, slavery is
| |
| | theoretical freedom, lacking any means
|
| entirely recreated. Because, while a
| |
| | for its possible realization, and
|
| worker can refuse one job or move from
| |
| | consequently it is only a fictitious
|
| his land, he is entirely dependent upon
| |
| | liberty, an utter falsehood. The truth is
|
| the Bourgeoise class for providing him
| |
| | that the whole life of the worker is
|
| with his subsistence.Peter Kropotkin once
| |
| | simply a continuous and dismaying
|
| wrote of the workers, "We are perfectly
| |
| | succession of terms of serfdom -voluntary
|
| aware that they often work for even less,
| |
| | from the juridical point of view but
|
| but we know also that they do it entirely
| |
| | compulsory in the economic sense - broken
|
| because, thanks to to our splendid social
| |
| | up by momentarily brief interludes of
|
| organization, they would die of hunger
| |
| | freedom accompanied by starvation; in
|
| without these ridiculous wages." ["The
| |
| | other words, it is real slavery." Thomas
|
| Wage System," by Peter Kropotkin.]
| |
| | Paine argued against Capitalism, writing,
|
| Mikhail Bakunin once wrote, "Suppose I am
| |
| | "It is not charity but a right, not
|
| your worker and you are my employer. If I
| |
| | bounty but justice, that I am pleading
|
| offer my labor at the lowest price, if I
| |
| | for. The present state of civilization is
|
| consent to have you live off my labor, it
| |
| | as odious as it is unjust. It is
|
| is certainly not because of devotion or
| |
| | absolutely the opposite of what it should
|
| brotherly love for you. And no bourgeois
| |
| | be, and it is necessary that a revolution
|
| economist would dare to say that it was,
| |
| | should be made in it. The contrast of
|
| however idyllic and naive their reasoning
| |
| | affluence and wretchedness continually
|
| becomes when they begin to speak about
| |
| | meeting and offending the eye, is like
|
| reciprocal affections and mutual
| |
| | dead and living bodies chained together."
|
| relations which should exist between
| |
| | ["Agrarian Justice," by Thomas Paine.]
|
| employers and employees. No, I do it
| |
| | In the same work, he wrote, "The state of
|
| because my family and I would starve to
| |
| | civilization that has prevailed
|
| death if I did not work for an employer.
| |
| | throughout Europe, is as unjust in its
|
| Thus I am forced to sell you my labor at
| |
| | principle, as it is horrid in its
|
| the lowest possible price, and I am
| |
| | effects; and it is the consciousness of
|
| forced to do it by the threat of hunger."
| |
| | this, and the apprehension that such a
|
| ["The Capitalist System," by Mikhail
| |
| | state cannot continue when once
|
| Bakunin.] In that same document, he also
| |
| | investigation begins in any country, that
|
| wrote, "The worker is in the position of
| |
| | makes the possessors of property dread
|
| a serf because this terrible threat of
| |
| | every idea of a revolution." As Henry
|
| starvation which daily hangs over his
| |
| | Salt once wrote, "Our capitalists persist
|
| head and over his family, will force him
| |
| | to the bitter end in the fatuous
|
| to accept any conditions imposed by the
| |
| | assertion that to live idly on the labour
|
| gainful calculations of the capitalist,
| |
| | of others is not the same thing as to
|
| the industrialist, the employer." Robert
| |
| | steal." ["Thou Shalt Not Steal," by Henry
|
| Green Ingersoll once wrote, "The working
| |
| | Stephens Shakespeare Salt, Justice, March
|
| people should be protected by law; if
| |
| | 14, 1885.]What is it that we have before
|
| they are not, the capitalists will
| |
| | us? Great injustice, brutality, cruelty,
|
| require just as many hours as human
| |
| | misery, and vice. I believe that every
|
| nature can bear." ["Eight Hours Must
| |
| | worker should be paid the wealth they
|
| Come," by Robert Green Ingersoll.]Workers
| |
| | produce. I believe that those who own
|
| have no property, so they cannot bargain.
| |
| | capital should be relinquished of their
|
| They cannot demand higher wages, for
| |
| | rights to the means of production. Did
|
| while they do, their children are
| |
| | Harriet Tubman ever leave money behind,
|
| shouting for bread that does not exist.
| |
| | to compensate the slave-owner? Certainly
|
| That is the result of Capitalism. A
| |
| | not! The idea of it is an absurdity.
|
| Capitalist philosopher may speak of
| |
| | So, then, too, the Capitalist class
|
| "freedom" or "liberty" all he wants. But
| |
| | should have its right to the means of
|
| when it comes down to it, it's th
| |
| | production released. Because, as they
|
| politics of starving. It is perpetual
| |
| | own the means of production, as they own
|
| poverty. A person can argue all they
| |
| | the farms, they are then granted the
|
| want, "If the job is unfair, they can
| |
| | economic right of exploitation, which is
|
| quit and find another one." But as they
| |
| | opposed ot all good creeds. That is the
|
| are thrown back into the job market, they
| |
| | first step to revolution. A law ought to
|
| will rarely be able to find another boss
| |
| | be made... stating that no person may
|
| willing to pay more.What is it that makes
| |
| | become wealthy from the labor of another.
|
| this sickening, revolting, and cruel, to
| |
| | Everyone should have an equal obligation
|
| the sight of every humane person? It is
| |
| | to work. Upon this commencement, I
|
| that the workers are responsible for
| |
| | believe the idea of Welfare ought to also
|
| producing the wealth! Adam Smith wrote,
| |
| | be abolished, or at least extremely
|
| "It was not by gold or by silver, but by
| |
| | minimalized. Once workers are being paid
|
| labour, that all the wealth of the world
| |
| | what they produce, no person will ever
|
| was originally purchased." ["Wealth of
| |
| | need a handout. Imagine, for instance,
|
| Nations", by Adam Smith, Book 1, Chapter
| |
| | if instead of 2.5%, a person was paid
|
| 5.] Ingersoll wrote, "The great body of
| |
| | closer to 90% or 95%. Imagine every wage
|
| the people make all the money; do all the
| |
| | multiplied by forty. What you have,
|
| work. They plow the land, cut down the
| |
| | then, is that corporate profits, instead
|
| forests; they produce everything that is
| |
| | of going to the idle, go to the
|
| produced. Then who shall say what shall
| |
| | industrious. That is justice. Since
|
| be done with what is produced except the
| |
| | working one hour will be able to get
|
| producer?" ["Centennial Oration," by
| |
| | someone enough subsistence for days, I
|
| Ingersoll.] In another work, he wrote,
| |
| | imagine criminal activity will be greatly
|
| "All my sympathies are on the side of
| |
| | reduced. Why would a robber ever decide
|
| those who toil -- of those who produce
| |
| | to steal a TeeVee from someone's home,
|
| the real wealth of the world -- of those
| |
| | when working one hour would be enough to
|
| who carry the burdens of mankind."
| |
| | produce one or two television sets?
|
| ["Eight Hours Must Come," by Ingersoll.]
| |
| | Instead of having our Capitalists decide
|
| Friedrich Engels wrote, "Labour is the
| |
| | for us what industries are best, people
|
| source of all wealth, the political
| |
| | would Democratically decide for
|
| economists assert. And it really is the
| |
| | themselves what they want. By voting
|
| source..." ["Part Played by Labour in
| |
| | together, every person will have a say in
|
| Transition From Ape to Man," by Engels,
| |
| | the matter of decision-making. So, then,
|
| 1876.]The fact that Capitalism incurs
| |
| | a new business will be erected, or an old
|
| brutality is not at all at question.
| |
| | one destroyed, by the vote of the people.
|
| Robert Owen, an Industrialist and Utopian
| |
| | The industries of food, of housing, of
|
| Socialist of the early 1800's, wrote that
| |
| | luxuries, will all be determined by the
|
| in one particular incident, a factory
| |
| | people. In this regard, we will not have
|
| owner had employed children ages 6, 7,
| |
| | the egregious abuse of the consumer that
|
| and 8. They worked for thirteen hours a
| |
| | we have today under Capitalism. A person
|
| day. Their work was so grueling and
| |
| | will never go into a tourist shop, and
|
| difficult for such tender bodies, a great
| |
| | find a molded piece of pottery on sale
|
| deal of them became permanently deformed.
| |
| | for $40 (though it cost $2 to make), upon
|
| ["A New View of Society," by Robert Owen,
| |
| | which any rational person would respond,
|
| essay 2.] Thomas Malthus also noted the
| |
| | "We made this, while we have starving
|
| same, "Boys that you would guess to be
| |
| | people in the corners of the globe?"That
|
| fourteen or fifteen are, upon inquiry,
| |
| | is Communism, and that is what I believe
|
| frequently found to be eighteen or
| |
| | in. Life,
|
| nineteen." ["An Essay on the Principle of
| |
| | PunkerslutPunkerslut (or Andy Carloff)
|
| Population," by Thomas Malthus.] The
| |
| | has been writing essays and poetry on
|
| fact that Capitalists have been forcing
| |
| | social issues which have caught his
|
| workers to work under harsh conditions is
| |
| | attention for several years. His website
|
| not in question by anyone known to the
| |
| | provides a complete list of all of these
|
| facts. To quote Robert Green Ingersoll,
| |
| | writings. His life experience includes
|
| "We have seen here in America street-car
| |
| | homelessness, squating in New Orleans and
|
| drivers working sixteen and seventeen
| |
| | LA, dropping out of high school, getting
|
| hours a day. It was necessary to have a
| |
| | expelled from college for "subversive
|
| strike in order to get to fourteen,
| |
| | activities," and a myriad of other
|
| another strike to get to twelve, and
| |
| | revolutionary actions.
|
| nobody could blame them for keeping on
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| |
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