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The Tyranny of Socialism

The Tyranny of Socialism by Yves Guyot is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org.

Author
Yves Guyot
First published
1894
Format
PDF and EPUB
Pages
168
Publisher
London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1894; Online Library of Liberty edition
License
Public domain by publication date.

Yves Guyot's attack on socialism, published in French in 1893 and in this English edition of 1894. In the manner of Bastiat, he picks apart socialistic sophisms and condemns socialistic legislation, strikes, and subsidies to business, and argues that militarism, protectionism, and socialism feed one another.

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54 chapters · 67,663 words · free to read here

  1. BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL.
  2. AUTHOR’S PREFACE TO THE FIRST FRENCH EDITION.
  3. AUTHOR’S PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION.
  4. SOCIAL RETROGRESSION.
  5. SOCIALIST PROGRAMMES.
  6. CHARACTER OF POLITICAL AND INTELLECTUAL PROGRESS.
  7. CHARACTER OF SOCIAL PROGRESS.
  8. THE EVOLUTION OF PROPERTY.
  9. DOCTRINAL CONTRADICTIONS OF THE SOCIALISTS.
  10. PRACTICAL SELF-CONTRADICTION OF THE SOCIALISTS.
  11. BOOK II.: SOCIALISTIC SOPHISMS.
  12. LABOUR AND WEALTH.
  13. ON THE LIMITS OF COLLECTIVIST SOCIETY.
  14. THE LAW OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND.
  15. THE “IRON LAW” OF WAGES.
  16. INTEGRAL WAGES.
  17. TO EACH ACCORDING TO HIS NEEDS.
  18. THE ABOLITION OF WAGES.
  19. MACHINERY.
  20. EXCESSIVE PRODUCTION.
  21. ECONOMIC CRISES.
  22. CHEAPNESS.
  23. THE GAME OF THE GULLIBLE.
  24. SOCIALISTIC METHODS.
  25. FACTS COMPARED WITH SOCIALIST STATEMENTS.
  26. Wholesale Price of Merchandise in England.
  27. Increase of Wages per cent. relatively to 1850.
  28. Annual Table of Italian Statistics, 1887–1888.
  29. The Graduated Scale of the City of Paris.
  30. REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH.
  31. PUTTING SOCIALISTIC SOPHISMS IN FORCE.
  32. THE REGULATION OF CHILD LABOUR.
  33. FEMALE LABOUR AND THE LAW.
  34. COMPULSORY IDLENESS OF LYING-IN WOMEN.
  35. NATIONAL LABOUR AND FOREIGN WORKMEN.
  36. TRADE SYNDICATES.
  37. REGISTRY OFFICES.
  38. NATURE OF “LABOUR LAWS.”
  39. CONTEMPT FOR THE LAW.
  40. SERVILE LABOUR AND FREE LABOUR.
  41. COST AND CONSEQUENCES OF STRIKES.
  42. THE CAUSES OF STRIKES.
  43. DURING THE STRIKE.
  44. SOCIAL WAR.
  45. PARLIAMENT AND STRIKES.
  46. SUBSIDIES TO STRIKERS.
  47. THE EXECUTIVE, THE JUDICATURE, AND STRIKES.
  48. LIBERTY AND ANARCHY.
  49. THE SOCIALISM OF EMPLOYERS.
  50. MILITARISM, PROTECTION, AND SOCIALISM.
  51. CONCLUSION.
  52. About Liberty Fund
  53. The Online Library of Liberty
  54. Copyright Information

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