A Socialist Catechism (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Herman I. Stern
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ISBN: 9781330993521
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Excerpt from A Socialist Catechism The recent elections in the United States differ from the quadrennial sprees of Sir Demos wherein he has hitherto zigzagged reeling from one of the old parties to the other. They mark rather a certain sobering up in him and a definite straight-forward step, namely from business controlled politics to economics. It is no less than the descent of the Great American Business Man and the ascent of the American Working Man and the Common People. Heretofore it has been sufficient for the Republican politicians to appeal for a "business administration" with the threat of an endangered prosperity. This time, having learned that the prosperity is none of ours, we have left business to its own resources, especially as the corner grocery man complained to the anxious housewife that it no longer reaches him. The Hobson's Choice of the Democratic politicians does not indicate that the people are quite so asinine as to turn back from the trusts to competition. It merely indicates that the big brute King Elephant shall no longer trample them and that they must put up with the antics of King Donkey during the transition period from the present to a coming order. They have caught a glimpse of co-operation beyond monopoly as the way out. They can never turn back. The chief agent in this change of mind is the Socialist who is at last being heard both in his diagnosis that there is such a thing as Capitalism, not merely oppressive Capital, and in his remedy. The immense increase in the Socialist vote shows this, and where there is one Socialist voter there are scores of waiting Socialist sympathizers. Now there is at hand the recurrent interaction between material pressure and mental readjustment. Man is mental first and last, in his motives and in his purpose, and material only in the middle, in his means. His materialities are merely the plastic material through which what is in his mind is wrought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.