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 55 |
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File Name | uhlib_2100825_054.jpg |
Transcript | THE METHODS OF SOCIALISM 53 dicalists" or "direct actionists." They are small in number, but exceedingly active, and the sensational press of the country is giving them a generous amount of benevolent attention. The movement is not serious and will not change the character of American Socialism. It is an expression of impatience and despair, which is quite natural, though not justifiable, in the period of youth and weakness of the Socialist movement. When Socialism grows strong and enters upon a career of true struggles and accomplishments, the syndicalist notions are bound to disappear. In Germany, Austria, Belgium and the Scandinavian countries syndicalism is an unknown quantity, but it flourishes in the countries in which the Socialist movement is least organized and stable, Italy and France. In fact, American syndicalism has been bodily imported from France with its entire undigested and untranslated terminology. Guerrilla methods of warfare, chicanery and violence have no legitimate place in the methods of modern Socialism. They are at variance with the most fundamental conceptions of the movement. The objective point of the Socialist attack is the capitalist system, not the individual capitalists. The struggles of the movement represent the organized efforts of the entire working class, not the daring of the individual leader or hero. The intellectual level and political ripeness of the working class are determined by the training of the men and women consti- |