What Is Socialism?: A Short Study of Its Aims and Claims (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

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Although at that time one man worked for another it was not in the capacity of the wage-worker of today; it was rather an apprenticeship for the purpose of learning the trade. This once learned. He was free and able to open his own shop and own his own product. It was when the simple and easily-made tool of the hand-worker was replaced by complex and expensive machinery that the workingman lost control of the instruments of production; it was when the increased size and cost of these tools made them too ex pensive for the ordinary worker to own that the small em ployer became the capitalist. And the employee became the wage-slave. Right there. The division of modern society into two distinct and antagonistic classes began.

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