There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers
of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes
the greatest number of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest who,
having perfected the function of his own life to the utmost, has always the
widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over
the lives of others.
“”
[89]
Ruskin’s social view broadened from concerns about the
dignity of labour to consider wider issues of citizenship, and notions of the
ideal community. Just as he had questioned aesthetic orthodoxy in his earliest
writings, he now dissected the orthodox political economy espoused by John
Stuart Mill, based on theories of laissez-faire and competition drawn from the
work of Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus. In his four essays, Unto
This Last, Ruskin rejected the division of labour as dehumanising (separating
labourer from his product), and argued that the "science" of
political economy failed to consider the social affections that bind
communities together. Ruskin articulated an extended metaphor of household and
family, drawing on Plato and Xenophon to demonstrate the communal and sometimes
sacrificial nature of true economics.[90] For Ruskin, all economies, and all
societies are ideally underwritten by a politics of social justice. Ruskin's
ideas influenced the concept of the "social economy" characterised by
networks of charitable, co-operative and other non-governmental organisations !
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