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“If only humanity had the consciousness of what it CAN, and if that consciousness only gave it the power to will!
If it only knew that cowardice of the spirit is the rock on which all revolutions have stranded until now.”

I read the bread book!!

“A society having taken possession of all social wealth, having boldly proclaimed the right of all to this wealth — whatever share they may have taken in producing it — will be compelled to abandon any system of wages, whether in currency or labour-notes.” ch13

i really liked ch 12 part 4 - about ‘idlers’ and the cause of idleness.

“Suppress the cause of idleness, and you may take it for granted that few individuals will really hate work, especially voluntary work, and that there will be no need to manufacture a code of laws on their account.”

(The people) love or hate one another, work, or live on their incomes; but... their lives remain ignored by newspapers. It is even so with history. We know the least details of the life of a king or of a parliament; all... speeches pronounced by the politicians have been preserved. But we have the greatest difficulty to reconstitute a city of the Middle Ages... or to know how the city of Rouen built its cathedral”

after bread is secured, leisure is the supreme aim
ch 9

Bread for All!
it is not easy to keep the upper hand of a people whose hunger is satisfied