The Ideological Lesson of the Free Wage System

Charity reformers derived their view of beggary from the teachings of classical economists and other liberal and scientific thinkers. They were heir to an intellectual tradition that dissociated relations of personal dependency from transactions based on voluntary contract. That indeed had been the ideological lesson of the civil war and emancipation, the basis for vindicating the free wage system. It's interesting Stanley points out that these wealthy liberals have all these... And then like we... These far communities take care of each other.