Title | Socialism summed up |
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Publisher | The H. K. Fly Co. |
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Date | 1913 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 110 pages: illustrations; 20 cm. |
Original Item Location | HX86.H77 1914 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304545~S11 |
Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
Use and Reproduction | This item is in the public domain and may be used freely. |
File Name | index.cpd |
Title | Image 34 |
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Transcript | CHAPTER III The Trend Of Social Development IN the Socialist conception economic systems and political institutions are not immutable forms. They are products of gradual growth and subject to incessant change. The present system of industry has not been consciously planned and devised by cunning capitalist minds. It has evolved from an older economic order by a series of imperceptible changes, accumulating steadily and irresistibly through several centuries. The feudal regime, which preceded the modern or capitalist order, had its economic root in agriculture, and was characterized by serfdom of labor and the rule of the land-owning nobles. Slowly and gradually commerce and manufacture grew up alongside of the predominant industry of agriculture. The discovery of America and of a sea route to the Indies and the introduction and perfection of the mariner's compass gave a tremendous impetus to navigation and trading, and trading stimulated manufacture. The growth of commerce and manufacture engendered a 32 |