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 81 |
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File Name | uhlib_2100825_080.jpg |
Transcript | ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF MOVEMENT 79 publications will report their utterances without distorting them, and well-behaved audiences will listen to them attentively and thoughtfully. "Ten years ago we formed the Liberty Party and polled but 7,059 votes in the whole country; two years ago our Free-Soil Party received almost three hundred thousand votes. "We have overcome many obstacles in the path of our movement and have created many conditions favorable to the ultimate triumph of our cause. These are the concrete and practical achievements of our agitation." It takes but little imagination to translate the assumed colloquy into modern terms and to apply the abolitionist argument to the present-day Socialist movement. The concrete and conscious efforts to pave the way for the introduction of a Socialist regime may be summarized under the following three main heads: 1. The enactment of such social reforms as tend to facilitate the transition from capitalism to Socialism. 2. The creation of a sympathetic public attitude towards the Socialist aim and program. 3. The organization of a body of persons, sufficiently numerous, intelligent and trained to accomplish the practical task of social transformation. . The extent to which these tasks have been accomplished determines the measure of practical success of the Socialist propaganda. |