[An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw]@TWC D-Link bookAn Unsocial Socialist CHAPTER V 29/40
But you do not care about all this prosy stuff.
I am consumed with remorse for having bored my darling.
You want to know why I am living here like a hermit in a vulgar two-roomed hovel instead of tasting the delights of London society with my beautiful and devoted young wife." "But you don't intend to stay here, Sidney ?" "Yes, I do; and I will tell you why.
I am helping to liberate those Manchester laborers who were my father's slaves.
To bring that about, their fellow slaves all over the world must unite in a vast international association of men pledged to share the world's work justly; to share the produce of the work justly; to yield not a farthing--charity apart--to any full-grown and able-bodied idler or malingerer, and to treat as vermin in the commonwealth persons attempting to get more than their share of wealth or give less than their share of work.
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