This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...the dangers of the line of argument which I see pursued by several of our friends. I have no wish myself to sever production from consumption. In the body politic as in the human body, consumption without production, production without consumption, alike is death. The essential point is to keep up the due relation ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...the dangers of the line of argument which I see pursued by several of our friends. I have no wish myself to sever production from consumption. In the body politic as in the human body, consumption without production, production without consumption, alike is death. The essential point is to keep up the due relation between the two--to remember that as men habitually produce that they may consume, so they should always consume that they may produce. Looked at from this point of view, consumption, which is in itself purely destructive, becomes the great conservative force of society--not antagonistic to production, which is its progressive force, but serving to it as a source of maintenance and development. What co-operation really aims at is to turn all producers into consumers, all consumers into producers; to bring out the powers of acquisition and enjoyment among the millions hitherto absorbed in production alone; to render all consumption fruitful, and so to speak, reproductive. I therefore entirely approve of the view that production should be chiefly favoured in those branches for which a sufficient demand can be found within the four comers of the movement itself. This is emphatically what I mean by making consumption reproductive. But from the moment production is entered upon, the producer, I consider, and not the consumer, be he poor or rich, should be the primary object of co-operation--consideration to him the primary stepping-stone in the path. The main question becomes one, not whether you or I as consumers should buy a given article so much per pound or per yard cheaper or dearer, but whether the men who spend themselves on the production of that article shall or shall not have the primary claim to the fruits of their labour. Let that claim be ...
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