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OWNERSHIP OP PROPERTY
To The Editor of The Commoner:
These two opposite ownerships
separate society, as a whole, Into two
distinct economic classes: The use
ful, producing class on the one hand,
and the non-producing or useless
on the other, to the extent of the
profits exacted of the former.
The bounties of nature, such as
land, forests and so forth, in their
natural state have a use value, but
no exchange value, for the reason,
labor does not enter their produc
tion, therefore any rental price
exacted for any part of mother earth
Is of the nature of profit.
This is the starting point or basis
for all forms of private ownership of
property for rental, interest, profit,
or speculative incomes.
The two ownerships to property
cannot exist together at the same
time in the same commodity.
Where the use ownership ends the
profit ownership begins, or vice
versa.
All commodities are social products,
for the reason that the labor of the
workers in the different industries
enters into their production, distri
bution, and conservation.
The value of each single com
modity Is measured or determined
by the average social necessary labor
time expended by each worker in
helping to produce it.
If the necesary social labor time
Is reduced one-half, with the aid of
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labor-saving machinery in the pro
duction of a single commodity, its
exchange value will bo reduced In
liko proportion.
What is true of one commodity of
a particular kind is true of others.
Ignorance of economies among the
producing class is tho bane of the
world.
Tho great majority of them do not
realize that they are tho real pro-'
ducers of both tho value of tho wages
they receive and tho profits exacted
of them.
Let us assume that tho average
working day consists nine hours;
that the wage of workers in the dif
ferent industries produce on an
average the value of tho wages they
receive in three hours' time.
On this assumption they would
receive only one-third of tho value
of tho commodities which they have
produced, the remaining six hours of
their labor would be expended in pro
ducing value for their employers for
nothing in return as an equivalent in
useful productive labor or service.
The first and most Important
economic lesson for tho producing
class to learn is how to retain tho
full social share of the value of tho
property they produce, instead of a
fractional part of it; why it is that
-vve havo a wage working class; why
it is that profits are exacted of them ;
why it is that they are competing
with each other for jobs; why it is
that their material interests are
opposed to the material interests of
their employers as a class; why it is
that we have a non-producing class
in society to the extent of the profits
exacted; why it is that they (the pro
ducing class) and their families
suffer for the lack of the necessary
food, clothing, houses, and so forth,
that they have produced in abun
dance, In short, when they fully
learn and realize that tho primary
and principal cause why they are
receiving a decreasing share of the
value ot their products is because of
the private ownership of property for
profit; then will they realize that
their mission is to free themselves
from the system of wage slavery, by
organizing themselves as a whole
Into an Industrial or co-operative
body of workers for the purpose of
substituting the use ownership of
the means of production and distri
bution for the private ownership for
profit, and thus make it possible for
them to retain the full social share
of the value of the different com
modities that each one helps to pro
duce. Ignorance and superstition
among the working class on econo
mies must first be overcome before
they can vote intelligently on ques
tions pertaining to the general wel
fare of society.
To that extent they voluntarily or
otherwise help to maintain the profit
ownership of property, to that ex
tent they vote and work against their
own material interests, whether they
realize it or not.
The results or effects that grow
out of the system of private owner
ship of property for profit, Buch as
strife, crime, murder, ostentatious
display and debauchery, each for
himself, anarchy in production and
distribution of property, discord in
families, poverty among tho useful
producing class and their families,
prostitution, divorce cases for non
support, maintenance of the able
bodied non-producers in society, the
concentration of power and wealth
in the hands of the few, the adultera
tion of food, production for profit
and not for use, wage slavery, real
estate business, evictions for non
payment of rent, the labor and time
expended In helping to defend and
protect the speculative ownership of
property, and so forth, would all be
removed under the complete collec
tive or co-operative ownership for
use, on tho principle that opposite
causes produce opposite effects, othor
things being equal.
To point out the destitution and
deprivations of tho working class as
the result of tho profit ownership of
property, and contrast tho advan
tages that would bo gained by them
under tho co-oporatlvo ownorshlp
would bo an endless task.
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