| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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on competing with him? No individual can practise co-operation by himself! Socialism can only be practised by the Community - that is the meaning of the word. At present, the other members of the community - the "Christians" - deride and oppose the Socialist's appeal. `It is these pretended Christians who do not practise what they preach, because, all the time they are singing their songs of Brotherhood and Love, they are fighting with each other, and strangling each other and trampling each other underfoot in their horrible "Battle of Life"! `No Socialist suggests "Sharing out" money or anything else in the manner you say. And another thing: if you only had a little more sense you might be able to perceive that this stock "argument" of yours is really an argument against the present system, inasmuch as it proves that Money is in itself of no use whatever. Supposing all the money was shared out equally; and suppose there was enough of |
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