That the laborer acquires at the expense of the idle proprietor; 2.

That all production being necessarily collective, the laborer is entitled to a share of the products and profits commensurate with his labor; 3.

That all accumulated capital being social property, no one can be its exclusive proprietor.
These inferences are unavoidable; these alone would suffice to revolutionize our whole economical system, and change our institutions and our laws.

Why do the very persons, who laid down this principle, now refuse to be guided by it?
Why do the Says, the Comtes, the Hennequins, and others--after having said that property is born of labor--seek to fix it by occupation and prescription?
But let us leave these sophists to their contradictions and blindness.
The good sense of the people will do justice to their equivocations.
Let us make haste to enlighten it, and show it the true path.

Equality approaches; already between it and us but a short distance intervenes: to-morrow even this distance will have been traversed.
% 6 .-- That in Society all Wages are Equal.
When the St.Simonians, the Fourierists, and, in general, all who in our day are connected with social economy and reform, inscribe upon their banner,-- "TO EACH ACCORDING TO HIS CAPACITY, TO EACH CAPACITY ACCORDING TO ITS RESULTS" (St.Simon); "TO EACH ACCORDING TO HIS CAPITAL, HIS LABOR, AND HIS SKILL" (Fourier),-- they mean--although they do not say so in so many words--that the products of Nature procured by labor and industry are a reward, a palm, a crown offered to all kinds of preeminence and superiority.