Let us assume that all production is socialized. If citizens abandon their work on the slightest pretext to go for a walk, they will end up in destitution and die of hunger. One will therefore be forced, sooner or later, to take measures to avoid these evils; and if one does not want to let selection operate and carry out the sorting of good and bad elements, it will be necessary to take away from citizens the freedom to leave their work, condemning them, in a way, to forced labor.
Vilfredo Pareto, Les systèmes socialistes (1902 – 1903), Vol. II, p. 63.
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