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What Social Classes Owe to Each Other by William Graham Sumner is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is What Social Classes Owe to Each Other about?
Written more than fifty years ago in 1883, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other is even more pertinent today than at the time of its first publication. Then the arguments and "movements" for penalizing the thrifty, energetic, and competent by placing upon them more and more of the burdens of the thriftless, lazy and incompetent, were just beginning to make headway in our country, wherein these "social reforms" now all but dominate political and so-called "social" thinking. Among the great nations of the world today, only the United States of America champions the rights of the individual as against the state and organized pressure groups, and our faith has been dangerously weakened -- watered down by a blind and essentially false and cruel sentimentalism. In "Social Classes" Sumner defined and emphasized the basically important role in our social and economic development played by "The Forgotten Man." The misappropriation of this title and its application to a character the exact opposite of the one for whom Sumner invented the phrase is, unfortunately, but typical of the perversion of words and phrases indulged in by our present-day "liberals" in their attempt to further their re
Who reads What Social Classes Owe to Each Other?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- William Graham Sumner
- Publisher
- Cosimo Classics
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781602067592
- Category
- nonfiction
- Rating
- 3.69 / 5 (76 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14