The result of this is that all indirect taxes, instead of falling upon individuals according to the proportion of their capital and income, are paid in the main by the propertyless classes, the poorer classes of the nation.
I have shown you, constitutes the poor and propertyless classes of society, then your will can no longer be resisted--depend upon that!
But was there much of the economic helplessness, more terrible than physical distress itself, which is the normal lot of most of the propertyless wage-earners of the modern world?
The motive of the other rules is to ensure that the custom of primogeniture, which obtains among the customary tenants on this manor, shall not result in the creation of a propertyless proletariat.
Will it not result in the creation of a body of propertyless labourers employed by a small village aristocracy?
The Propertied and Propertyless Classes in Austria.
The masses become propertylessand are obliged to earn their share of food by serving the propertied class.
In the course of time the propertied members made common cause against the propertyless ones.
All that is new when the minority attempting to establish its dictatorship is composed of poor, propertyless people, is the fact of their economic condition and status.
If the unemployed, propertyless wage-worker has a right to live, he has the right to sustain life.
The true point of view from which to see the need of the application of this principle is from the position of the unemployed, propertyless wage-worker.
It has produced the daily sharpening antagonism between the continually less numerous but constantly richer capitalists and the more numerous, but on the whole, continually poorer propertyless wage-workers.
The propertyless are, of course, not affected by political rule, so far as it relates directly to property.
There ought to be no propertyless workers in Great Britain.
The immediate effect of the industrial revolution upon the countries to which it came was to cause a vast, distressful shifting and stirring of the mute, uneducated, leaderless, and now more and more propertyless common population.
A sense of solidarity between all sorts of poor and propertyless men, as against the profit-amassing and wealth-concentrating class, is growing more and more evident in our world.
The Church might preach equality, humility and the list of virtues; but nevertheless that did not give the propertyless man a vote.
Apologies, stale jokes, and sneers at the propertyless workers followed one another in close succession.
This marked the beginning of a reign of terror during which no propertyless worker or union sympathizer was safe from attack.
The self-interest of those having private property keeps them from dividing their property, and starvation is confined to the propertyless members.
Every propertyless family marks a failure in its purpose.
But where there is great inequality in the distribution of wealth and a large propertyless class, democracy is the only guarantee that the benefits of municipal ownership will not be monopolized by the property-owning class.
The object of these restrictions was not so much to limit the rights of the property-owning classes as to protect them against the extravagance of the propertyless voters.
It is on such substantial grounds that the propertyless distrust the democracy of the progressives and radicals.
It has caused more than a little resentment among the propertyless that the taxpayers should actually have the effrontery to propose the still more conservative commission plan as being a radically democratic reform.
Between those who wish to maintain these conditions and the propertyless laborers there is a wall which can be done away with only by the abolition of wage labor.
They outnumber the large capitalists and their retainers ten to one, and they hold the political balance of power between these and the propertyless classes.
From now on the chasm between the property-holding and the propertyless classes widened rapidly.
The large majority are rendered propertyless and are stripped of the means of existence; their share of food then depends upon the good will of their masters, for whom they now have to work.
So soon as the towns had acquired power, and contained a well-organized body of the trades, hostility arose against new immigrants, mostly propertyless peasants, who wanted to settle as handicraftsmen.
A bitter struggle over the division of the products of labor is waged between the exploiting propertied classes on the one hand and the exploited propertyless class on the other.
It separates the worker from his means of production, and converts him into a propertyless proletarian, while the means of production become the monopoly of a relatively small number of capitalists and large landowners.
It was the propertylessonly for whom the execution of law was intended.
The propertyless owned nothing, not to speak of a judge, but the capitalists owned whole strings of judges, and those whom they did not own or corrupt were generally influenced to their side by association or environment.
The increase of the propertyless through mortgages may even be greater than through the increase of the population, though we regard only the latter.
But what can the propertyless people do when they increase and when all the wealth and capital produced by the people are monopolized by a few families, as even the 1st and 2d tables, p.
And it is this table that can tell the number of the propertyless families in the United States, even without regarding any further material on the subject.
If a propertyless man desires to exist at all in the sight of his God in this quasi-civilized world, he must spend his life in the following ways: 1.
If they don’t wish to divide the sole results of their labor, then they must starve, and there is no other alternative for them, because they are propertyless and hence resourceless.
A million population in one city, as you know, constitutes one of the most populous cities in the world; and we could have thirty-two such cities in the possession of these now propertyless people.
The propertyless man is another source of expense in favor of the support of the general government of the nation, a state government, a county government, and perhaps a municipal one.
As regards this point we have equal or even greater reason to say that those mortgages have mostly been liquidated by an absolute loss of property, because at the end of the decade we have had many millions of propertyless families.
While most men had to go propertyless in a world that was privately owned, the assertion of equality was an empty lie.
What were some of the early arguments for giving propertyless men the vote?
It is desirable, too, to levy at least a light tax upon thepropertyless classes, in order to encourage them to feel an interest in, and a sense of responsibility for, the conduct of their government.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "propertyless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bankrupt; destitute; homeless; insolvent
