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 36 |
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File Name | uhlib_2100825_035.jpg |
Transcript | 34 SOCIALISM SUMMED UP feudal form of government, was discarded, and a new political dress, adjusted to the strong and growing limbs and the free and rapid movements of the new economic body, was devised. The countless miniature kingdoms and principalities were consolidated into large nations following the transformation of the small workshops for local trade into big factories for the national market. Autocratic monarchies were supplanted by constitutional kingdoms or republics, as the absolute rule of the feudal lord in his domain yielded to the business contract in the new economic order. Courts and court cliques were succeeded by parliaments and chosen representatives, as the hereditary noble was replaced by the "self- made' man of affairs. The "will of the king," the basis of the feudal political order, was displaced by the controlling political principle of "popular liberty,' reflecting the triumph of free competition in industry over the crystallized, localized forms of medieval agriculture and the absolute rule of the feudal lord over his manor. Thus the modern or capitalist order of society, economic, political and social evolved gradually within the loins of the feudal order, and is in turn bound to give birth to a new social order. For every economic or social system of society is good only for limited time. History assigns a certain role to it, and when its part is played and its task performed, the curtain of the ages opens upon the next act in the eternal drama of human progress. The feudal regime in its |