Title | Socialism summed up |
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Publisher | The H. K. Fly Co. |
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Date | 1913 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 110 pages: illustrations; 20 cm. |
Original Item Location | HX86.H77 1914 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304545~S11 |
Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
Use and Reproduction | This item is in the public domain and may be used freely. |
File Name | index.cpd |
Title | Image 53 |
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File Name | uhlib_2100825_052.jpg |
Transcript | THE METHODS OF SOCIALISM 51 workers in economic no less than in political self-government. It is for that reason that the movement everywhere seeks alliance with the economic organizations of labor, the trade-unions and the co-operative societies. The trade and labor-unions are an efficient instrument for the organization of the productive forces of industry; the co-operative movement trains the workers in the independent, collective management of industrial processes. The Socialists are ever active in the organization of trade-unions and co-operative workingmen's societies and in the support of their work and struggles. In Germany, Austria and other countries in which the Socialist movement antedated the economic organizations of labor, the latter : largely owe their existence to the Socialists. In Belgium and the Scandinavian countries the Socialist Party, trade-unions and co-operative societies are almost organically united. In the English-speaking countries, in which the beginning of the Socialist movement found the economic organizations of labor fully established, the Socialists bend every effort to bring about a friendly understanding with them and a policy of mutual support. The Socialist activities in the economic organizations of labor are not mere meddling or political flirtation. They are an organic part of the practical work of the Socialist Party. Socialism, trade-unionism and the co-operative movement are but different phases of the general |