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Excerpt from Introduction to Socialism
The report is on a crop of bushels, and the commissioner divides the total data by giving the cost for 20 bushels.
Human labor 2 hours, 58 minutes (call it 3 hours). Animal labor (an item that we shall later see will soon be eliminated), 8 hours.
Twenty bushels for three hours' labor. Add 1-3 that it may more nearly conform with our definition of labor cost, and we have 20 bushels for four hours, or our assumed Socialist day. How many bushels can you now get for a 10-hour day?
And mark this, that this report includes every item of labor from the time men go forth to plow the ground until the wheat is sacked and stored in the granary.
But men do not go to this work with a single plow, a pair of bob-tailed mules and chain harness - do not go forth to wear them selves out plodding all, day to turn over about one and one-half acres. They go with steam plows and steam threshers; they do the work as it should be done.
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