2. -- The disasters in labor and the perversion of ideas caused by monopoly. Like competition, monopoly implies a contradiction in its name and its definition. In fact, since consumption and production are identical things in society, and since selling is synonymous with buying, whoever says privilege of sale or exploitation necessarily says privilege of consumption and purchase: which ends in the denial of both. Hence a prohibition of consumption as well as of production laid by monopoly upon the wage-receivers. Competition was civil war, monopoly is the massacre of the prisoners. These various propositions are supported by all sorts of evidence, -- physical, algebraic, and metaphysical. What I shall add will be only the amplified exposition: their simple announcement demonstrates them. Every society considered in its economic relations naturally divides itself into capitalists and laborers, employers and wage-receivers, distrib...