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Secrion III].—Competirion AND MONOPOLY.
The good side of competition.
The bad side of competition.
General reflection.
Problem to solve.
“Competition is as essential to labor as divi- sion..... It is necessary to the advent of equality.”
“This principle is the negation of itself. Its most certain effect is to ruin those whom it draws into its train.”
“The inconveniences which follow in its train, as well as the good which it procures. ., flow logical- ly, the one and the other, from the principle.”
“To find the principie of reconciliation, which must be derived from a law superior to liberty itself.”
VARIANT.
“Tt cannot therefore be here a question of destroy- ing competition, a thing as impossible as to destroy liberty itself; it is a ques- tion of finding the equi- librium, I will frankly say the police.”
M. Proudhon begins by defending the eternal necessity
