E. Belfort Bax Quotes
We would surrender once and for all this chimerical notion of one day of universal rest, and institute three days a week, or if necessary more, as; days of partial rest; i.e., on which the different sections of he community would be freed from labor in turn. In this way each section would be able rely to profit, physically and mentally, by their leisure, inasmuch as they would have the advantage of the labor of the rest of the world just as another day the rest of the world would have the advantage of their labor.
Essentially, this late 19th century notion of the English Socialist movement has become the norm in most industrialized democracies, the only difference being the 2 “partial holidays” as opposed to 3. But the social and economic advantage of having part of the work-force operational to provide services to the rest was key to our modern practice.
E. Belfort Bax, 1854–1925, English Attorney, Journalist & Philosopher, Socialism and Religion, June 1884
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Ernest Belfort Bax was an English barrister, journalist, philosopher, men's rights advocate, socialist, and historian.
