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Communism Worked Honestly By Officials Devoid Of Human Frailties And Devoted To Nothing But The Good Of Its Slaves, Would Have Certain Manifest Material Advantages As Compared With A Proletarian Wage-system Where Millions Live In Semi-starvation, And Many Millions More In Permanent Dread Thereof. But Even If It Were Administered Thus Communism Would Only Produce Its Benefits Through Imposing Slavery.

Under The Old Social Philosophy Which Had Governed The Middle Ages, Temporal, And Therefore All Economic, Activities Were Referred To An Eternal Standard. The Production Of Wealth, It Distribution And Exchange Were Regulated With A View To Securing The Christian Life Of Christian Men. In Two Points Especially Was This Felt: First In Securing The Independence Of The Family, Which Can Only Be Done By The Wide Distribution Of Property, In Others Words The Prevention Of The Growth Of A Proletariat; Secondly, In The Close Connection Between Wealth And Public Function.

The Choice Lies Between Property On The One Hand And Slavery, Public Or Private, On The Other. There Is No Third Issue.

And The Men That Were Boys When I Was A Boy Shall Sit And Drink With Me.

The Very Large Units Of Production And Exchange Have Access To Credit On A Large Scale, Sometimes Without Any Cover At All, Merely Upon The Prospect Of Their Success, And Always Upon Terms Far Easier Than Are Open To Their Smaller Rivals. It Is Perhaps On This Line Of Easier Credit That Large Capital Today Does Most Harm To Small Capital, Drives It Out And Ruins It.