The Religion of Socialism: Being Essays in Modern Socialist Criticism |
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The Religion of Socialism: Being Essays in Modern Socialist Criticism Ernest Belfort Bax No preview available - 2016 |
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abstract Anarchism ancient antagonism Aryan races basis become bourgeois capital capitalist ceased character Christian civilisation commercial commodities conscience course culture distinction economic economists embodied Empire English enthusiasm essentially ethics exchange exchange-value existence expression fact feudal French Revolution Greek guild Hence honour human ideal ignoratio elenchi implied indi individual individualist industry interest Karl Pearson labour labour-force land LAURENCE GRONLUND Leroy-Beaulieu less liberty living machinery Marx means medieval ment merely Middle Ages middle-class mind modern moral movement nature negation numbers organisation passed period phase political possession present primitive communism principle production progress proletariat Protestantism question races realised reality recognise relation religion religious revolution Roman Roman Empire sense sentiment sham side slave social Socialist society stage supernatural surplus value tendency things third estate tion to-day tribe Utopian Socialism vidual whole words workman
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Page 66 - The fact that half a day's labour is necessary to keep the labourer alive during 24 hours does not in any way prevent him from working a whole day.
Page 52 - In what sense Socialism is not religious will be now clear. It utterly despises the ' other world ' with all its stage properties — that is, the present objects of religion.
Page 67 - Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes.
Page 94 - We are told, with a moral bluntness which strangely contrasts with a profession of lofty social aims, that " to the socialist labour is an evil to be minimized to the utmost, the man who works at his trade or avocation more than necessity compels him, or who accumulates more than he can enjoy, is not a hero, but a fool, from the socialist standpoint, and thrift is contemptuously discarded.