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Liberty of the press, liberty of speech, freedom of religion, or rather freedom from religion, and the unlimited right of private judgement have borne no good fruit, and many bad ones.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
Free laborers have not a thousandth part of the rights and liberties of negro slaves. Indeed, they have not a single right or a single liberty, unless it be the right or liberty to die.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
The failure of laissez-faire, of political economy, is admitted now by its last and lingering votary. Free society stands condemned by the unanimous testimony of all its enlightened members.
Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)
Liberty is an evil which government is intended to correct. This is the sole object of government.
Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)
In the last place, the negro race is inferior to the white race, and living in their midst, they would be far outstripped or outwitted in the chase of free competition.
Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)
Our only quarrel with Socialism is, that it will not honestly admit that it owes its recent revival to the failure of universal liberty, and is seeking to bring about slavery again in some form.
Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)
With thinking men, the question can never arise, who ought to be free? Because no one ought to be free. All government is slavery.
Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)
…the great truth which lies at the foundation of all society—that every man has property in his fellow-man!
Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)
Slavery is a form of communism… The manner to which the change shall be made from the present form of society to that system of communism which we propose is very simple.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
Were he a slave, he would enjoy in fact as well as in legal fiction, all necessary and essential rights. Pure air and water, a house, sufficient food, fire, and clothing, would be his at all times.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
Men are not ‘born entitled to equal right! It would be far nearer the truth to say, ‘that some were born with saddles on their backs, and others booted and spurred to ride them’—and the riding does them good.
Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)
[T]he capitalists now live entirely by the proceeds of poor men’s labor, which capital enables them to command.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
No association, no efficient combination of labor can be effected till men give up their liberty of action and subject themselves to a common despotic head or ruler. This is slavery, and towards this socialism is moving.
Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)
A Southern farm is beau idea of Communism; it is a joint concern, in which the slaves consume more than the master, of the coarse products, and is far happier, because although the concern may fail; he is always sure of a support.
Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)
A mere verbal formula often distinguishes a truism from a paradox. ‘It is the duty of society to protect the weak;’ but protection cannot be efficient without the power of control; therefore, ‘It is the duty of society to enslave the weak’.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
We conclude that about nineteen out of every twenty individuals have ‘a natural and inalienable right’ to be taken care of and protected; to have guardians, trustees, husbands, or masters; in other words, they have the natural and inalienable right to be slaves.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
We say allowance, not wages; for neither slaves nor free laborers get wages, in the popular sense of the term: that is, the employer or capitalist pays them for nothing of his own, but allows them a part, generally a very small part of the proceeds of their own labor.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
Money is the great weapon in a free, equal and competitive society, which skill and capital employ in the war of the wits, to exploitate and oppress the poor, the improvident, and the weak-minded. Its evil effects are greatly aggravated by the credit and banking systems.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
[Man] is not free because he has no where that he may rightfully lay his head. Private property has monopolized the earth, and destroyed both his liberty and equality.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
But slavery does, in practice as well as in theory, acknowledge and enforce the right of all to be comfortably supported from the soil. There was, we repeat, no pauperism in Europe till feudal slavery was abolished.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)