The British Labour Movement Is Today, And

Freedom Is The Recognition Of Necessity.

Only Sound Common Sense, Respectable Fellow That He Is, In The Homely Realm Of His Own Four Walls, Has Very Wonderful Adventures Directly He Ventures Out Into The Wide World Of Research.

The State Is Nothing But An Instrument Of Opression Of One Class By Another - No Less So In A Democratic Republic Than In A Monarchy.

Freedom Does Not Consist In Any Dreamt-of Independence From Natural Laws, But In The Knowledge Of These Laws, And In The Possibility This Gives Of Systematically Making Them Work Towards Definite Ends.

Competition Permits The Capitalist To Deduct From The Price Of Labour Power That Which The Family Earns From Its Own Little Garden Or Field; The Workers Are Compelled To Accept Any Piece Wages Offered To Them, Because Otherwise They Would Get Nothing At All, And They Could Not Live From The Products Of Their Small-scale Agriculture Alone, And Because, On The Other Hand, It Is Just This Agriculture And Landownership Which Chains Them To The Spot And Prevents Them From Looking Around For Other Employment.