The Quintessence of SocialismS. Sonnenschein & Company, Limited, 1908 - 127 páginas |
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abso agitation alism anarchical BERNARD BOSANQUET bour capitalist centralisation Church cial cialism clearly collective capital collective production collectivism commodities compensation competition consumption critical Das Kapital demand departments distribution dities duction eans EDITION exchange exchange-value existing expropriated free love freedom fundamental idea individual labour industrial instruments of production Karl Marx kind Lassalle lative llective longer Marx's masses means of enjoyment means of production ment necessary oduce onomy organisation organization ould perty pital political positive programme possible present principle private income private property productive businesses profits proletariat question Quintessence Schäffle share Social Democracy social labour social labour-cost social labour-time social production socialistic society speculative standard of value superfluous surplus-value system of production theory of value tion tive to-day trade unified use-value vate wages wealth whole workmen
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Página 13 - ... grows the mass of misery, oppression, slavery, degradation, exploitation; but with this too grows the revolt of the working class, a class always increasing in numbers, and disciplined, united, organised by the very mechanism of the process of capitalist production itself.
Página 23 - My stand-point, from which the evolution of the economic formation of society is viewed as a process of natural history, can less than any other make the individual responsible for relations whose creature he socially remains, however much he may subjectively raise himself above them.
Página 13 - Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated...
Página 13 - Hand in hand with this centralisation, or this expropriation of many capitalists by few, develop, on an ever extending scale, the co-operative form of the labour-process, the conscious...
Página 3 - ... the moment this is stated, the first difficulty of Socialism is at once suggested. How do the directors of an ordinary manufacturing firm ascertain the conditions of their business ? By a series of experiments, failure in which means the loss of their capital. How does Socialism solve the problem ? ' The amount of supply necessary in each form of production would be fixed by continuous official returns furnished by the managers and overseers of the selling and producing departments V This is...
Página 13 - ... the co-operative form of the labourprocess, the conscious technical application of science, the methodical cultivation of the soil, the transformation of the instruments of labour into instruments of labour only usable in common, the economising of all means of production by their use as the means of production of combined, socialised labour, the entanglement of all peoples in the net of the world-market, and with this, the international character of the capitalistic regime.
Página 12 - Selfearned private property, that is based, so to say, on the fusing together of the isolated, independent labouring-individual with the conditions of his labour, is supplanted by capitalistic private property, which rests on exploitation of the nominally free labour of others, ie, on wages-labour.
Página 2 - ... collective) organization of national labour, on the basis of collective or common ownership of the means of production by all the members of the society. This collective method of production would remove...
Página 1 - The economic quintessence of the Socialistic programme, the real aim of the international movement is as follows : — To replace the system of private capital (ie the speculative method of production, regulated on behalf of society only by the free competition of private enterprises) by a system of collective capital, that is, by a method of production which would introduce a unified (social or collective) organization of national labour, on the basis of collective or common ownership of the means...
Página 6 - ... collective capital. But they would not be working as private manufacturers and their workmen, but would all be on an equal footing as professional workers, directly organised, and paid their salary, by society as a whole. Consequently, there would no •longer exist in future the present fundamental division of private income into profits (or in some cases the creditor's share, by way of interest, in the profit of the debtor) and wages, but all incomes would equally represent a share in the national...