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Oscar Wilde

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The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody. In fact, scarcely anyone at all escapes.


Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man under Socialism,” Fortnightly Review, February 1891.

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