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Socialism As It Is

CHAPTER I
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"I submit that on the whole he stands to gain....
"Under Socialist government such as is quite possible in England at the present time:-- "He will be restricted from methods of production and sale that are socially mischievous.
"He will pay higher wages.
"He will pay a large proportion of his rent-rate outgoings to the State and Municipality, and less to the landlord.

Ultimately he will pay it all to the State or Municipality, and as a voter help to determine how it shall be spent, and the landlord will become a government stockholder.

Practically he will get his rent returned to him in public service.
"He will speedily begin to get better-educated, better-fed, and better-trained workers, so that he will get money value for the higher wages he pays.
"He will get a regular, safe, cheap supply of power and material.
He will get cheaper and more efficient internal and external transit.
"He will be under an organized scientific State, which will naturally pursue a vigorous scientific collective policy in support of the national trade.
"He will be less of an adventurer and more of a citizen."[13] Mr.Churchill while denying any sympathy for Socialism, as both he and the majority of Socialists understand it, frankly avows himself a collectivist.

"The whole tendency of civilization," he says, "is towards the multiplication of the collective functions of society.

The ever growing complications of civilizations create for us new services which have to be undertaken by the State, and create for us an expansion of the existing services.


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