Part 21 (1/2)
CHAPTER LI. RULING CLa.s.sES 119
Deals with authority in human society, how it is obtained, and what sanction it can claim.
CHAPTER LII. THE PROCESS OF SOCIAL EVOLUTION 122
Discusses the series of changes through which human society has pa.s.sed.
CHAPTER LIII. INDUSTRIAL EVOLUTION 126
Examines the process of evolution in industry and the stage which it has so far reached.
CHAPTER LIV. THE CLa.s.s STRUGGLE 132
Discusses history as a battle-ground between ruling and subject cla.s.ses, and the method and outcome of this struggle.
CHAPTER LV. THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM 136
Shows how wealth is produced in modern society, and the effect of this system upon the minds of the workers.
CHAPTER LVI. THE CAPITALIST PROCESS 142
How profits are made under the present industrial system and what becomes of them.
CHAPTER LVII. HARD TIMES 145
Explains why capitalist prosperity is a spasmodic thing, and why abundant production brings distress instead of plenty.
CHAPTER LVIII. THE IRON RING 148 a.n.a.lyzes further the profit system, which strangles production, and makes true prosperity impossible.
CHAPTER LIX. FOREIGN MARKETS 151 Considers the efforts of capitalism to save itself by marketing its surplus products abroad, and what results from these efforts.
CHAPTER LX. CAPITALIST WAR 155 Shows how the compet.i.tion for foreign markets leads nations automatically into war.
CHAPTER LXI. THE POSSIBILITIES OF PRODUCTION 158 Shows how much wealth we could produce if we tried and how we proved it when we had to.
CHAPTER LXII. THE COST OF COMPEt.i.tION 162 Discusses the losses of friction in our productive machine, those which are obvious and those which are hidden.
CHAPTER LXIII. SOCIALISM AND SYNDICALISM 166 Discusses the idea of the management of industry by the state, and the idea of its management by the trade unions.
CHAPTER LXIV. COMMUNISM AND ANARCHISM 170 Considers the idea of goods owned in common, and the idea of a society without compulsion, and how these ideas have fared in Russia.
CHAPTER LXV. SOCIAL REVOLUTION 175 How the great change is coming in different industries, and how we may prepare to meet it.
CHAPTER LXVI. CONFISCATION OR COMPENSATION 179 Shall the workers buy out the capitalists? Can they afford to do it, and what will be the price?
CHAPTER LXVII. EXPROPRIATING THE EXPROPRIATORS 183 Discusses the dictators.h.i.+p of the proletariat, and its chances for success in the United States.
CHAPTER LXVIII. THE PROBLEM OF THE LAND 188 Discusses the land values tax as a means of social readjustment, and compares it with other programs.