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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. COMMUNISM, COLLECTIVISM, AND STATE INTEEVENTION. The two chief forms of Socialism are Communism and Collectivism. Both are clearly included in Socialism, and they are easily distinguishable. It is unnecessary to say much regarding the first. The second is the only kind of Socialism which is very formidable, and, consequently, the only kind which urgently requires to be discussed. Communism is related to Socialism as a species to its genus. All Communists are Socialists, but all Socialists are not Communists. Perhaps all Socialism tends to Communism. Socialism revolts against the inequalities of condition which result from the exercise of liberty. But why should it stop short, or where, in opposing them, can it stop short, of the complete equality of conditions in which Communism consists ? Only when property is left undivided, when it is held and enjoyed by the members of a society in common, is there equality of condition. It is often said that Communism is impracticable. In reality it is the form of Socialism which is far the most easily, and has been far the most frequently, practised. Communistic societies have existedin nearly every land, and have appeared in almost all ages of the world. It would be easy to collect from the last two thousand years of history many hundreds, and, from the present century, many dozens, of examples of such societies. The family has from its very nature somewhat of a communistic character. The aggregation of families originated those so-called primitive communities still extant in various countries, which held land in common, and in which there very probably was at first proprietary equality among all the families of each group. But such natural or naturally evolved forms of society as families and village communities ha...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217050210 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217050212 |
| Weight | 1.04 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.71 In |
| List Price | $22.72 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 318 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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