Britain for the British

by Robert Blatchford

Wages is wealth paid to the workers for their labour in producing all the wealth.

There are but a few landlords, but they take a large share of the wealth.

There are but a few capitalists, but they take a large share of the wealth.

There are very many workers, but they do not get much more than a third share of the wealth they produce.

The landlord produces nothing. He takes part of the wealth for allowing the workers to use the land.

The capitalist produces nothing. He takes part of the wealth for allowing the workers to use the capital.

The workers produce all the wealth, and are obliged to give a great deal of it to the landlords and capitalists who produce nothing.

Socialists claim that the landlord is useless under any form of society, that the capitalist is not needed in a properly ordered society, and that the people should become their own landlords and their own capitalists.

If the people were their own landlords and capitalists, all the wealth would belong to the workers by whom it is all produced.