The Religion of Socialism: Being Essays in Modern Socialist Criticism

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Swan Sonnenschein, 1891 - Socialism - 177 pages
 

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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.

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