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Ancient Society

Ancient Society delves into the origins and evolution of human societies, examining the social structures, cultural practices, and economic systems of early human groups. more

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Lewis Henry Morgan
Lewis Henry Morgan

Lewis Henry Morgan was a distinguished member of the New York State Senate. Born on November 21, 1818, and deceased on December 17, 1881, he played a significant role in the political development of New York. more

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“Centralize property in the hands of a few and the millions are under bondage to property - a bondage as absolute and deplorable as if their limbs were covered with manacles. Abstract all property from the hands of labor and you thereby reduce labor to dependence; and that dependence becomes as complete a servitude as the master could fix upon his slave.”

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Author:Lewis Henry Morgan
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“The dissolution of society bids fair to become the termination of a career of which property is the end and aim, because such a career contains the elements of self-destruction. Democracy in government, brotherhood in society, equality in rights and privileges, and universal education, foreshadow the next higher plane of society to which experience, intelligence and knowledge are steadily tending.”

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Book:The Indian Journals, 1859-62
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“Nine-tenths of the people are at present freeholders... The time is not distant when this country will abound with mechanics and manufacturers who will receive their bread from their employers. Will such men be the secure and faithful guardians of liberty? Give the votes to people who have no property, and they will sell them to the rich who will be able to buy them.”

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Author:Gouverneur Morris
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“One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist... What those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. The absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.”

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Author:Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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“So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now changed their system to state-socialism. Small elites run them, and they aren't sharing societies. They aren't even socialist. The power of the state has been merged with business property and you have the greatest concentration of power that's possible.”

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Author:Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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