Socialism & syndicalism / by Philip Snowden.

  • Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden
Date:
1915
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Credit: Socialism & syndicalism / by Philip Snowden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cannot enjoy his riches in the knowledge of the misery of the men and women and chil¬ dren around him, as it is the cause of the poor widow struggling in the labour market to feed her fatherless children. It is to the cultured and leisured class that Socialism makes, perhaps, its strongest appeal, for they have been given exceptional opportunities of being of service to their generation. The establishment of Socialism, as we hope to show, will offer to that class richer opportunities of service and enjoyment than are possible under a system where one man’s pleasure is obtained by the suffering of others, and where wealth, honours, and social position are too often not the reward of industry or of virtue, but are obtained by the tyrannical and oppressive exploitation of one’s fellows. CHAPTER II THE FACTS AND FIGURES OF THE PROBLEM Not the least valuable of the work which Socialists have done has been to collect and to publish the real facts in regard to the social condition of the people. There has been much truth in the past in the old saying that one half the world knew not how the
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