The cost of living among wage-earners, Cincinnati, Ohio, May, 1920

Likewise, the owner of your means of transportation may leave you stranded on the sidewalk, and the owner of your house may make you homeless. PeopleБЂ™s imperative needs cannot be regulated by legal or administrative procedures. They must be fundamentally implanted into the society in accordance with natural rules. The aim of the socialist society is the happiness of the human being, which cannot be attained except by the establishment of oneБЂ™s material, and spiritual freedom. The achievement of freedom depends on the private and sacred attainment of manБЂ™s needs. OneБЂ™s needs should not be under the domination of others and should not be subject to plunder by any source in society, otherwise one will live in insecurity. Deprivation of the means of fulfilment compromises freedom because, in attempting to satisfy basic needs, one would be subject to the interference of outside forces in oneБЂ™s basic interests. The transformation of existing societies of wage-earners into those of partners is inevitable as a dialectical outcome of the contradictory economic theories prevailing in the world today ...»