Mr. Cabet reminds his followers that they should not seek the triumph of their ideas anywhere else but in debating and convincing the public.
Category: Communism
RESPONSE TO L’ATELIER NEWSPAPER
Since political economy restricts its field of investigations, it is supposed that it despises anything that does not enter its sphere of interest.
ABOUT COMMUNISM
We believe that government or collective force is mainly and almost exclusively appointed in order to prevent and repress abuse.
LETTERS TO RICHARD COBDEN
Communism is fought with communist arguments.
THE TWO MOTTOES
Individualism, then, accomplishes the task that the sentimentalists of our day would entrust to brotherhood, to self-sacrifice, or to some other motive opposed to self-love.
LANDED PROPERTY.
Economists, socialists, egalitarians, all direct the same reproach against landed property, that of charging for something that it has no right to charge for.
PRIVATE PROPERTY AND COMMON WEALTH.
Communism destroys liberty, for it permits no one to dispose freely of his own labor.
CAPITAL.
The qualities needed to snatch capital violently from the hands of the men who create it are exactly the opposite of the qualities that are necessary for its creation.
ON VALUE.
We may note, however, that for beings endowed with a capacity for experimenting, learning, and improving, progress is the general law.
ON VALUE.
Yes, through a faulty definition, political economy has put logic on the side of the socialists.
PROTECTIONISM AND COMMUNISM
…the intervention of the legislator to level wealth by taking from some what is needed to gratify others is communism…
PROTECTIONISM AND COMMUNISM
Plundering property is no less plunder because it is accomplished legally, in an orderly fashion, systematically, and through the implementation of the law.
BACCALAUREATE AND SOCIALISM
They nevertheless had to accept the evidence and finally recorded, to their great regret, that communism, an attractive illusion, is an appalling reality.
PROPERTY AND LAW
But the principle is always the same: to take from some people on the basis of legislation to give the proceeds to others