Equality
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.97 (793 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0403001455 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 492 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Completely unreadable, do not buy this edition! At the onset of this edition of "Equality," the publisher attempts to explain why the rest of the book is an unreadable, haphazard mess of random letters, spacing, and punctuation. Apparently this book was scanned using (very poor) optical character recognition. The publisher, General Books LLC, did not find that they needed to edit this in the slightest. As a result, your reading experience will be flooded with phr. Michael L. Baird said "Equality" has formed a critical part of my thinking on social justice. 50 years ago my father gave me his copy of Bellamy's Equality - a well-worn often read tome in our family. It formed a critical part of my thinking ever since, and has guided me in making fundamental decisions about what is right and wrong, good and evil, and just and unjust. Anyone interested in social justice, or the abuse of political, religious, or financial power, should read and internalize what Bellamy was vi. A Utopia that provides direction for how humans can economically evolve to a higher level of living I would give it five stars if it weren't for the language, a sort of 19th century, upper class dialect that is sometimes difficult to follow.One chapter summarizes the whole book, without the delicious detail. Entitled "The Parable of the Water Tank," the structure of capitalism is simplified exposing its faults and providing justification for criticism.Bellamy provides a vision for economic equality among humankind
It was just those j despised, ridiculed, cursed, and hooted fellows up there on / thatpcdesfcil who with their perpetual strikes would not let I the world rest till their wrong, which was also the whole / world's wrong, was righted. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Once more had God chosen t the foolish things of this world to confound the wise, the weak things to confound the mighty. Not illustrated. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. "In order to realize how powerfully these strikes operated to impress upon the people the intolerable wickedness and folly of private capitalism, you must remember that events are what teach men, thsitdeeds have a far more potent educating influence than any amount of doctrine, and especially so in an age like yours, when the masses had almost no culture or ability to reason. Excerpt: Let me try to give you the modern point of view as to the part played hy their originals." We sat down upon one of the benches before the statue, and the doctor went on: "My dear Julian, who was it, pray, that first roused the world of your day to the fact that there was an industrial question, and by their pathetic demonstrations of passive resistance to wrong for ftfty years kept the public attention i fixed on that question till it was settled 1 Was it your; statesmen, perchance your economists, your scholars, or any; other of your so-called wise m