Sections 1 FOOD I If the coming Revolution is to be a Social Revolution, it will be distinguished from… 2 The want only grew. 3 The idea of the people will be to provide bread for all. 4 Yet should the Revolution be so misguided as to start on this path, it would be lost. 5 III The most prominent characteristic of our present capitalism is the wage system, which in… 6 This point cannot be too much insisted upon; the reorganization of industry on a new basis… 7 And if the impetus of the people is strong enough, affairs will take a very different turn. 8 In any case, a system which springs up spontaneously, under stress of immediate need, will… 9 It is a fact worth remarking that the same system prevails in the great towns in the… 10 Say, in a word, that if this or that article of consumption runs short, and has to be doled… 11 But to make a hard and fast rule of this, to make a duty of taking home our food ready… 12 But all the signs lead us to believe that it will not take place. 13 Besides, we do not believe that in any one country the Revolution will be accomplished at a… 14 Now, we declare with the fullest conviction, not merely that such a solution is undesirable,… 15 Let the town apply itself, without loss of time, to manufacturing all that the peasant… 16 VII All the great towns, we have said, buy their grain, their flour, and their meat, not… 17 But, on the other hand, there will be an increase of production as soon as the peasant… 18 Steam, electricity, the heat of the sun, and the breath of the wind, will ere long be…
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