Socialists want government ownership, Jonathan, but they don't want it unless the people are to own the government. When the government represents the interests of all the people it will use the things it owns and controls for the common good. And that will be Socialism in practice, my friend.
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OBJECTIONS TO SOCIALISM CONSIDERED
I feel sure that the time will come when people will find it difficult to believe that a rich community such as our's, having such command over external nature, could have submitted to live such a mean, shabby, dirty life as we do.—William Morris.
Morality and political economy unite in repelling the individual who consumes without producing.—Balzac.
The restraints of Communism would be freedom in comparison with the present condition of the majority of the human race.—John Stuart Mill.
I promised at the beginning of this discussion, friend Jonathan, that I would try to answer the numerous objections to Socialism which you set forth in your letter, and I cannot close the discussion without fulfilling that promise.