wagedom

What a sad satire is that name, Political _Economy_, given to the science of waste and energy under the system of wagedom!

The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin

If industry nowadays brings in a hundred times more than it did in the days of our grandfathers, it is due to the sudden awakening of physical and chemical sciences towards the end of last century; not to the capitalist organization of wagedom, but _in spite_ of that organization.

The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin

Therefore a society aiming at the well-being of all, and at the possibility of all enjoying life in all its manifestations, will give voluntary work, which will be infinitely superior and yield far more than work has produced up till now under the goad of slavery, serfdom, or wagedom.

The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin

But how can we defend labour-notes, this new form of wagedom, when we admit that the houses, the fields, and the factories will no longer be private property, -- that they will belong to the commune or the nation?

The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin

First of all, -- Is it not evident that if a society, founded on the principle of free work, were really menaced by loafers, it could protect itself without the authoritarian organization we have nowadays, and without having recourse to wagedom?

The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin

But this does not prevent a great many Socialist reformers from remaining partisans of individual remuneration, and defending the old citadel of wagedom, notwithstanding that it is being delivered over stone by stone to the assailants by its former defenders.

The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin

They recognize that work paid with money, even disguised under the name of "labour cheques," to Workers 'associations governed by the State, would keep up the characteristics of wagedom and would retain its disadvantages.

The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin

It is precisely to put an end to this separation between manual and brain work that we want to abolish wagedom, that we want the Social

The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin

Moreover, it is time to submit to a serious analysis this legend about superior work, supposed to be obtained under the lash of wagedom.

The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin

Thus the argument in favour of wagedom is as valueless as those by which they seek to apologize for private property and the State.

The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin