 | Thomas Hodgskin (December 12, 1787 - August 21, 1869) on Workers and The State(published by RevoltSource) |
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English Socialist Writer on Political Economy, Critic of Capitalism and Defender of Free Trade and Early Trade Unions In the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries, the Term Socialist Included any Opponent of Capitalism
: An English socialist writer on political economy, critic of capitalism and defender of free trade and early trade unions. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the term socialist included any opponent of capitalism, at the time defined as a construed political system built on privileges for the owners of capital. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #5 on Economic Struggle Quotes >> Workers and The State
“Those who of late have shown themselves so ready to resist the just claims of labor, who, under the influence of interest and passion, have hurried into the arena with their penal laws, and have come forward, brandishing their parchment statutes, as if they, poor beings, could whip mankind into patience and submission, when these weapons of theirs -- these penal laws and parchment statutes -- derive all their power, whether for evil or for good, from the sanctity with which we are pleased to invest them...”
Source: "Labour Defended against the Claims of Capital," by Thomas Hodgskin, 1825.
"Labour Defended against the Claims of Capital," by Thomas Hodgskin, 1825.
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