that property, instead of being organized in such a way as to facilitate the unlimited communion of man with his fellows and with the universe, has been, on the contrary, turned against this communion." Let us translate this into commercial phraseology.

In order to destroy despotism and the inequality of conditions, men must cease from competition and must associate their interests.

Let employer and employed (now enemies and rivals) become associates.
Now, ask any manufacturer, merchant, or capitalist, whether he would consider himself a proprietor if he were to share his revenue and profits with this mass of wage-laborers whom it is proposed to make his associates.
"Family, property, and country are finite things, which ought to be organized with a view to the infinite.

For man is a finite being, who aspires to the infinite.

To him, absolute finiteness is evil.