Sections 1 The morning following, Edith received a call to report at her post of duty for some special… 2 "So we read," 3 "Oh, no," 4 "Good heavens!" 5 "There being under the old order of things," 6 "Very well," 7 "On the contrary, the capitalists made their profits as high as possible. 8 "Then it appears that what would be good for the particular capitalist, if he alone did it,… 9 "But would not the rate of profits have been much reduced in the case supposed?" 10 "Precisely so. 11 "To what have our historians been wont to compare the condition of the community under the… 12 "Would such a thing be possible nowadays as full storehouses and a hungry and naked people… 13 JOHN TELLS ABOUT COMPETITION. 14 "And all this ocean of lying, you say, did not and could not increase the total of goods… 15 "Were adulteration and scamped work the only devices by which sham reductions of prices was… 16 "Then, on the whole, competition was not a palliative of the profit system?" 17 "Evidently, John, if you had lived in the early part of the revolutionary agitation you… 18 "Tell us, Robert, did not our ancestors recognize the facts of the situation you have described? 19 "Obviously," 20 "Tell us about the wasteful expenditure of labor in competition." 21 "What have you to say of the moral aspect of this expenditure for luxury?" 22 "You say," 23 "Easily," 24 "And do I understand, then, that this stationary condition, after which no increase in the… 25 "It did not give a faint idea of it, much less represent it," 26 "I am sure there never was such another instance, and I will tell you why I think so. 27 "Have you ever looked over any of the treatises which our forefathers called political… 28 "The fatal and quite incomprehensible mistake of their authors was that they did not… 29 "And did interest represent any economic service to the community on the part of the… 30 "For that purpose the results of production must be distributed equally among all the…
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