/lit/ - Literature

>>19422613
Yes, because of competition, class dynamics, and, more recently, the anarchy of the market. Remove those things and man can be a united pack.
>>19422618
What belongs to everybody belongs to the individual. If society owns great riches, and I can partake in the use of these riches whenever I desire, then all the great riches of all of society are mine and free for my use. Thus everyman becomes richer than the richest man alive today.
>>19422629
Obviously it’s no longer what he’s getting at, that’s the point of my comment. I’m correcting his misunderstanding of socialism.
>>19422630
so? Socialism is a most perfect meritocracy, this means hierarchy, but only deserved not based off irrational market success, luck, birth-rights, etc. Equality of opportunity.

>>19376234
George Eliot first and foremost. Middlemarch, yea, but also The Mill On The Floss which is filled with brilliant and beautiful psychological insights. Also John Williams.