WEALTH.

Without perceiving what is happening, he will permit himself to be carried along, content merely to consider effects, obstacles, the interests of the producer, and worse yet, to confuse those interests with the public interest. This, in fact, amounts to choosing the ills instead of the benefits…

ON VALUE.

We may say that the natural social order is perfectible and harmonious if, on the one hand, the number of men engaged in unskilled labor and receiving the lowest possible wages is continually decreasing, and if, on the other, these wages, measured, not in value or in money, but in material satisfactions, are continually increasing.

V. DE LA VALEUR.

On peut affirmer que l’ordre social naturel est perfectible et harmonique, si, d’un côté, le nombre des hommes voués au travail brut, et recevant la plus petite rétribution possible, va sans cesse diminuant, et si, de l’autre, cette rémunération mesurée non en valeur ou en monnaie, mais en satisfaction réelle, s’accroît sans cesse.

FREE CREDIT

What is more, through the capitalization of interest, the position of the workers is steadily worsening each year, to the extent that if the analysis is followed through, around the seventh year we find that the entire initial contribution of the workers has passed as interest and profit into the hands of landowner-capitalist-businessmen…

GRATUITE DU CREDIT

En outre, par la capitalisation de l’intérêt, la position des travailleurs s’aggrave chaque année de plus en plus; de telle sorte qu’en poussant la démonstration jusqu’au bout, on arrive, vers la septième année, à trouver que tout l’apport primitif des travailleurs est passé, à titre d’intérêts et de bénéfices, entre les mains du propriétaire-capitaliste-entrepreneur…

FREE CREDIT

I will renounce all the illusions of socialism and make myself a Christian once more if you prove to me that the benefit provided by capital, as well as the circulation of financial assets, cannot under any circumstances be free of charge.