m this economic and social viewpoint is Professor Thomas C.
Hall's little book, _The Social Meaning of Modern Religious Movements in
England_ (1900).
[77] Appendix to F. Engels' _Feuerbach, the Roots of the Socialist
Philosophy_, translated by Austin Lewis, 1903.
[78] _The Eighteenth Brumaire._
[79] Quoted from _The Sozialistische Akademiker_, 1895, by Seligman,
_The Economic Interpretation of History_, page 142.
[80] _Idem_, page 143.
[81] _Karl Marx's Nationaloekonomische Irrlehren_, von Ludwig Slonimski,
Berlin, 1897.
[82] I have not attempted to give a history of the development of the
theory. For a more minute study of the theory, I must refer the reader
to the writings of Engels, Seligman, Ferri, Ghent, Bax, and others
quoted in these pages.
[83] _Capital_, Vol. I, page 406 n. (Kerr edition).
[84] Liebknecht, _Memoirs of Karl Marx_, page 91.
[85] _Charles Darwin and Karl Marx, A Comparison_, by Edward Aveling,
London, 1897.
[86] See Thorold Rogers, _The Economic Interpretation of History_,
second edition, 1891, pages 10-12.
[87] For various reasons, chief of which is that it would take me too
far away from my present purpose, I do not attempt to develop the
serious consequences of these events to Europe. See _The Economic
Interpretation of History_, Chapter I, for a brief account of this.
[88] _Ancient Society, or Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from
Savagery through Barbarism to Civilization_, by Lewis H. Morgan. New
edition, Chicago, 1907.
[89] Darwin, _The Descent of Man_, second edition, page 163.
[90] _Mutual Aid a Factor of Evolution_, by Peter Kropotkin, pages 5-6.
[91] _Idem_, page 74.
[92] Cf. _Ancient Society_, by Lewis H. Morgan, and _The Origins of the
Family, Private Property, and the State_, by Friederich Engels.
[93] Engels, _Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State_, p.
182.
CHAPTER V
CAPITALISM AND THE LAW OF CONCENTRATION
I
Such was the mode of the development of capitalistic production in its
first stage. In this stage a permanent wage-working class was formed,
new markets were developed, many of them by colonial expansion and
territorial conquest, and production for sale and profit became the
rule, instead of the exception as formerly when men produced primarily
for use and sold only their surplus products. A new form of class
division thus arose out of this economic soil. Instead of being bound to
the land as the
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