SOCIALISM AND THE FARMING INTEREST 



Permit me now to distinguish between 

 two types of socialism, the scientific and the 

 popular, for, to some extent, what I have 

 still to say can be made more relevant by 

 treating them apart. 



Socialism of the reasoned sort, as worked 

 out by Rodbertus and in part by Marx, is 

 at first sight very attractive. It meets many 

 objections on which the more popular doc- 

 trine has no word. Thus, it is anti-commu- 

 nistic, not proposing that all men's services 

 shall be rewarded alike irrespective of 

 ability and fidelity, but aiming to mete out 

 rewards in an equitable manner. By the 

 device of labor-time money, essaying to 

 make costs and prices exactly agree, it pro- 

 poses that any person shall command for a 

 day's toil products costing the community 

 precisely the amount of time and toil-units 

 to which he has been subjected in the day's 

 work. Not "to all men alike," but "to every 

 man according as his work shall be." This 

 system, patiently elaborated by Rodbertus, is 

 so perfect and workable at many points that 

 it tempts one to hail it as a real herald of 



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