Note 1055 — Chapter IV · : DOCTRINES THAT OWE THEIR INSPIRATION TO CHRISTIANITY
R. (Robert) Richards translation
He was the first to emphasise the importance of borrowers combining. Only in this way can the poor hope to offer some real security. “How is it that the worker cannot borrow? Simply because he has no security to offer except just his work in the future. That future guarantee can only become real and certain by means of combination. Union eliminates the uncertainty which hitherto made the security worthless and the loan impossible.” (La Question du Travail, p. 25.)
“The problem is to outline a state of society where working men will work only for themselves and not for others; where none will reap but has already sown, and where each will enjoy the fruits of his own labour.” (Ibid.)