Jean-Charles-Leonard Simonde De Sismondi (May 9, 1773 - June 25, 1842) on Workers and Civilization(published by RevoltSource) |
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Swiss Historian, Political Economist, best Known for his Works on French and Italian History, one of the First Liberal Critics of Laissez-faire Economics, Pioneering Advocate of Unemployment Insurance, Sickness Benefits, and a Progressive Tax
: A Swiss historian and political economist, who is best known for his works on French and Italian history, and his economic ideas. His Nouveaux principes d'?conomie politique, ou de la richesse dans ses rapports avec la population (1819) represents the first liberal critique of laissez-faire economics. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
Quote #8 on Economic Struggle Quotes >> Workers and Civilization
“The misery of the savage hunter, who dies so frequently of hunger, is not equal to that of millions of families, whom a manufacturer sometimes dismisses; because at least there remains to the former, all the energy, and all the intelligence, which he has put to proof during all his life. When he dies for want of finding game, he yields to a necessity which nature herself presents, and to which he knew, from the beginning, he must submit, as to sickness, or to old age. But the artisan, dismissed from his workshop, with his wife and children, has beforehand lost the strength of his soul and his body; he is still surrounded with riches; he still sees beside him, at every step, the food which he requires; and if society refuses him the labor by which he offers, till his last moment, to purchase bread, it is men, not nature, that he blames.”
Source: "Political Economy," by Jean-Charles-Leonard Simonde de Sismondi, 1815 Chapter 7.
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