"All cooperative schemes which provide equal remuneration to the skilled and industrious and the ignorant and idle must work their own downfall. For by this unjust plan they must of necessity eliminate the valuable members and retain only the improvident, unskilled and vicious." | Quote by: | Robert Dale Owen
(1801-1877) Scottish-born Welsh-American social reformer, State Congressman (IN-D), US Congresman (IN-D) |
Source: | In reference to the failed socialistic utopian community, New Harmony, Indiana, that his father Robert Owen founded.
The New Harmony Communities, 1902
https://www.maciverinstitute.com/perspectives/the-failed-socialist-state-in-midwestern-america |
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