Labours Wrongs And Labours Remedies PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... receipts are--the transfer of that labour which ought to be rendered by the capitalists. Such, then, is money--such is the mode in which it is created--such are the evils and the wrongs inseparable from its existence, so long as it is created and used by particular classes, to the exclusion of other classes. Such exclusiveness must ever compel the working class to be the slaves and the tools of their fellows; and the seal of their doom can be broken asunder only by a power which at the same time overthrows the present system. CHAPTER XI. AN OUTLINE OF A SOCIAL MOVEMENT. If sufficient proof has not been given of the corrupt tendencies and the unimprovable character of the present system, those who wish for more evidence have not far to look for it. Let us go where we will--see and hear what we will--read of the past and the present what we will--all places, actions, and times, have the same tale to tell. History and experience bear evidence, in characters of fire, and blood, and misery, that this social system never has been, is not now, and never can be, anything but a dark and chaotic sea of evil, in which oppression is unpunished, virtue and morality unregarded, merit unrewarded, and the tears of the widow and the orphan unpitied and unheeded. Thus, from its very nature, and the irremediable evils connected with it, there is nothing to induce us to retain the present system, even were its subversion attended by treble the difficulty which stands in the way of its accomplishment. Changes are ever taking place, more or less important in regard to their effects upon society. Man is a progressing being; and he looks to the past, therefore, not so much to take pattern of that which was good, as to derive warning from that which was evil. In...