Jules Guesde Quotes
Labor is, on the one hand, more and more furnished by a class; Property or Capital, on the other, held and controlled by another class. Here you have workers without property—the proletariat. There you have property without work—or capital…. The workers without property are excluded from their products, from the riches they create—which accumulate in the hands of the property holders, capitalists and large land-owners.
Jules Guesde, 1845-1922, [Jules Bazile], French Journalist & Minister of State, Founder of the French Workers Party, The Social Problem and Its Solution, 1905
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At the time, it did seem impossible that labor and capital would ever have harmonious relations. But the notion that slavery would solve the problem is as preposterous as anything ever entered into the American political dialogue. But there were many in the South, and some in the North, who actually believed it. Even 150 years later, while labor and capital relations were much better than pre Civil War, they still could not be described as “harmonious” or “friendly”.
In his economic view, managers, accountants, attorneys, owners, shareholders, landlords, were all supported by the workers who have to support themselves and all the others.
This quotation and other material were so radical and inflammatory that Calhoun wrote and published this anonymously.
Labor unions as we know them did not then exist. Calhoun and many others saw the struggle as a inherent class struggle, not unlike that particular view of Karl Marx. See {606584} for one his more extreme views on the subject.
Salisbury was a brilliant, effective prime minister, but he was a snob and not a democrat. See {639131}.
Jules Bazile, known as Jules Guesde (11 November 1845 – 28 July 1922) was a French socialist journalist and politician.
