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Title The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Page 1357
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Text of proper food and clothing. Socialists say that the community should undertake and organize the business of producing and distributing all these things;
that the State should be the only employer of labour and should own all the factories, mills, mines, farms, railways, fishing fleets, sheep farms, poultry farms and cattle ranches.

`Under existing circumstances the community is degenerating mentally and physically because the majority cannot afford to have decent houses to live in. Socialists say that the community should take in hand the business of providing proper houses for all its members, that the State should be the only landlord, that all the land and all the houses should belong to the whole people...
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