What Thomas Paine thinks about capitalism

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Pamphleteer and revolutionary (1737 to 1809), born in Norfolk, England; author of Common Sense, a central text behind the call for American independence, and Rights of Man.

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1. c. 1795–1797

   Our readingWhoever accumulates beyond what their own hands produce owes part of it back to society

   Their wordsAll accumulation, therefore, of personal property, beyond what a man's own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes, on every principle of justice, of gratitude, and of civilization, a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came.

   ↗Agrarian Justice (1797; Philadelphia, R. Folwell)en.wikisource.org All 18 from this book