A Critical Examination of Socialism by William Hurrell Mallock
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Such opportunities mean the granting to one man the control of other men by means of wage-capital. Disastrous effects of granting such opportunities to all or even most of those who would believe themselves entitled to them. True remedy for the difficulties besetting the problem of opportunity. Ruskin on human demands. Needs and "romantic wishes." The former not largely alterable. The latter depend mainly on education. The problem practically soluble by a wise moral education only, which will correlate demand and expectation with the personal capacities of the individual. Relative equality of opportunity, not absolute equality, the true formula. Equality of opportunity, though much talked about by socialists, is essentially a formula of competition, and opposed to the principles of socialism. CHAPTER XVI THE SOCIAL POLICY OF THE FUTURE THE MORAL OF THIS BOOK |
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