Book I, conclusion of Raphael's argument
Where possessions be private, where money beareth all the stroke, it is hard and almost impossible that there the weal-public may justly be governed and prosperously flourish.Read in Books4Free →
Communism and the Abolition of Property
From Utopia by Thomas More
Raphael's central thesis that no commonwealth can be just where private property exists, anticipating later socialist thought by three centuries.
Book II, on Utopian economics
Gold and silver are used for chamber pots and chains for slaves to teach contempt for wealth.
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