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Single Idea 24425

[catalogued under 23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / c. Wealth]

Full Idea

Wealth has always been and still is the indispensable condition for the realisation of everything hunman.

Gist of Idea

Wealth is essential for all human goods

Source

Mikhail Bakunin (Science and the Urgent Revolutionary Task [1870], p.120)

A Reaction

Diogenes of Sinope (perhaps the first anarchist) would disagree, but in the modern world it is hard to deny this claim, which comes from a famous anarchist. Note that it is necessary, but probably isn't sufficient. Anarchists must create wealth, then.

Book Reference

'The Anarchists', ed/tr. Horowitz,Irving L. [Dell 1964], p.120