ABSTRACT
Social legislation analogous to that for the factories would have very grave consequences for selling prices. In no part of the economy as much as in agriculture does one find examples of progressive social legislation. The great difficulty of the agrarian program arises from that it is almost impossible not to take account of the interests of the heads of enterprises, while socialism has taken it as a principle never to take them into account. Marxists could never under any pretext associate themselves with proposals designed to impede or retard the progress of the productive economy. Many conservatives recommend the construction of factories in the country so that workers can alternate labor in the factories with that on the land. The large landholdings are apt to be socialized just as much as the great factories; in one case as in the other it is necessary to concern oneself with the arms and not the head of industry.
