Chapter XVII.--_The Process of Concentration in Capitalistic Industry_ 319 1. The Displacement of Agriculture by Industry 319 2. Increasing Pauperization--Preponderance of Large Industrial Establishments 323 3. Concentration of Wealth 333 Chapter XVIII.--_Crisis and Competition_ 338 1. Causes and Effects of the Crises 338 2. Intermediate Trade and the Increased Cost of Living 343 Chapter XIX.--_The Revolution in Agriculture_ 347 1. Transatlantic Competition and Desertion of the Country 347 2. Peasants and Great Landowners 349 3. The Contrast Between City and Country 358 THE SOCIALIZATION OF SOCIETY. Chapter XX.--_The Social Revolution_ 363 1. The Transformation of Society 363 2. Expropriation of the Expropriators 366 Chapter XXI.--_Fundamental Laws of Socialistic Society_ 370 1. Duty to Work of All Able-bodied Persons 370 2. Harmony of Interests 375 3. Organization of Labor 380 4. The Growth of the Productivity of Labor 383 5. Removal of the Contrast between Mental and Manual Work 392 6. Increase of Consumption 396 7. Equal Duty to Work for All 399 8. Abolition of Trade--Transformation of Traffic 405 Chapter XXII.--_Socialism and Agriculture_ 407 1. Abolition of the Private Ownership of Land 407 2. The Amelioration of Land 409 3. Changed Methods of Farming 414 4. Agriculture on a Large and Small Scale--Electric Appliances 415 5. Vine-Culture of the Future 424 6. Measures to Prevent Exhaustion of the Soil 427 7. Removal of the Contrast between City and Country 431 Chapter XXIII.--_Abolition of the State_ 434 Chapter XXIV.--_The Future of Religion_ 437 Chapter XXV.--_The Socialist System of Education_ 440 Chapter XXVI.--_Literature and Art in Socialistic Society_ 451 Chapter XXVII.--_Free Development of Individuality_ 455 1. Freedom from Care 455 2. Changes in the Methods of Nutrition 457 3. The Communistic Kitchen 461 4. Transformation of Domestic Life 463