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Now, if there are groups of people who have a claim to other people's labour and self-denial, and if there are other people’s labour and self-denial, and if there are other people whose labour and self denial liable to be claimed by the first groups, then there certainly are "classes ’, and classes of the oldest and most vicious type. For a man who can command another man's labour and self-denial for the support of his own existence is a privileged person of the highest species conceivable on earth. Princes and pampers meet on this plane, and no other men are on it. On the other hand, a man whose labour and self-denial may be diverted from his maintenance to that of some other man is not a freeman, and approaches more or less toward the position of a slave. Therefore we shall find that, in all the notions which we are to discuss, this elementary contradiction, that there are classes and that there are not classes, will produce repeated confusion and absurdity. We shall find that, in our efforts to eliminate the old vices of class government, we are impeded and defeated by new products of the worst possible distinction - the right to claim and the duty to give one m an's effort for another man's satisfaction. We shall find that effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.
It is very popular to pose as a “friend of humanity", or a “friend of the working classes”. Anything which has a charitable sound generally passes withoutinvestigation, because it is disagreeable to assail it. Whatever may be one's private sentiments, the fear of appearing cold and hard-hearted causes these conventional theories of social duty and these assumptions o f social fact to pass unchallenged.
Now, if there are groups of people who have a claim to other people's labour and self-denial, and if there are other people’s labour and self-denial, and if there are other people whose labour and self denial liable to be claimed by the first groups, then there certainly are "classes ’, and classes of the oldest and most vicious type. For a man who can command another man's labour and self-denial for the support of his own existence is a privileged person of the highest species conceivable on earth. Princes and pampers meet on this plane, and no other men are on it. On the other hand, a man whose labour and self-denial may be diverted from his maintenance to that of some other man is not a freeman, and approaches more or less toward the position of a slave. Therefore we shall find that, in all the notions which we are to discuss, this elementary contradiction, that there are classes and that there are not classes, will produce repeated confusion and absurdity. We shall find that, in our efforts to eliminate the old vices of class government, we are impeded and defeated by new products of the worst possible distinction - the right to claim and the duty to give one m an's effort for another man's satisfaction. We shall find that effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.
It is very popular to pose as a “friend of humanity", or a “friend of the working classes”. Anything which has a charitable sound generally passes withoutinvestigation, because it is disagreeable to assail it. Whatever may be one's private sentiments, the fear of appearing cold and hard-hearted causes these conventional theories of social duty and these assumptions o f social fact to pass unchallenged.
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