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# [The Communism of John Ruskin, or Unto This Last (1891) by John Ruskin](https://samisdat.in/books/unto-this-last-1891)

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# John Ruskin, 1819-1900

## The communism of John Ruskin; or, "Unto this last"; two lectures from "The crown of wild olive"; and selections from "Fors clavigera." (1907)

![Unto This Last (1907) by Ruskin, John, 1819-1900](https://samisdat.in/images/1/0/3/a/c/103ac4d430cbe6d2660127664e3049f18588e298-1891---communism-of-john-ruskin-or-unto-this-last---john-ruskin.jpg?g-58cef636)

The essay "Unto This Last" profoundly influenced the ideas of Gandhi and labour movements.

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### From The Introduction

Surely Ruskin needs no introduction to the world. But of Ruskin's social teaching, of his message to society, of his gospel of the life in common, — of this we would say a word — not that he needs this either, but that we need it, — we need it to rightly appreciate and take home his message to our hearts. The production of a true social form has been the supreme task given to the nineteenth century. What is Ruskin's place ; what his message ; what his contribution to the century? Ruskin is first and foremost a Teacher. He has not originated. He is not the originator of a new system, of a new order, even of a new philosophy.

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