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Title: Woman under socialism

Author: August Bebel

Translator: Daniel De Leon

Release Date: December 10, 2009 [EBook #30646]

Language: English

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WOMAN UNDER SOCIALISM

[Illustration: AUGUST BEBEL]

Woman Under Socialism

_By_

AUGUST BEBEL

Translated from the Original
German of the 33d Edition
_By_
DANIEL DE LEON.

1917
NEW YORK LABOR NEWS COMPANY
NEW YORK

"The end of social development resembles the beginning of human
existence. The original equality returns. The mother-web of
existence starts and rounds up the cycle of human
affairs."--Bachofen.

"Since the advent of civilization, the outgrowth of property has
been so immense, its forms so diversified, its uses so expanding
and its management so intelligent in the interests of its owners,
that it has become, on the part of the people, an unmanageable
power. The human mind stands bewildered in the presence of its own
creation. The time will come, nevertheless, when human intelligence
will rise to the mastery over property, and define the relations of
the State to the property it protects, as well as the obligations
and the limits of the rights of its owners. The interests of
society are paramount to individual interests, and the two must be
brought into just and harmonious relations. A mere property career
is not the final destiny of mankind, if progress is to be the law
of the future as it has been of the past. The time which has passed
away since civilization began is but a fragment of the past
duration of man's existence; and but a fragment of the ages yet to
come. The dissolution of society bids fair to become the
termination of a career of which property is the end and aim;
because such a career contains the elements of
self-destruction."--Morgan.

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