Rent The Soul of Man Under Socialism

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Book Excerpt: rong, and he findshimself a poor man, with his social position quite gone. Now,nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothingshould be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is whatis in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of noimportance.With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true,beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life inaccumulating things, and the symbols for things. One will live.To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, thatis all.It is a question whether we have ever seen the full expression of apersonality, except on the imaginative plane of art. In action, wenever have. Caesar, says Mommsen, was the complete and perfectman. But how tragically insecure was Caesar! Wherever there is aman who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.Caesar was very perfect, but his perfection travelled by toodangerous a road. Marcus Aurelius was the perfect man, says Renan.Read More

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