The Socialist party was a really democratic political organization--it was controlled absolutely by its own membership, and had no bosses.
When Jurgis had made himself familiar with the Socialist literature, as he would very quickly, he would get glimpses of the Beef Trust from all sorts of aspects, and he would find it everywhere the same; it was the incarnation of blind and insensate Greed.
The Socialists were organized in every civilized nation; it was an international political party, said Ostrinski, the greatest the world had ever known.
The French Socialist and Communist literature was thus completely emasculated.
By this, the long wished-for opportunity was offered to "True" Socialism of confronting the political movement with the Socialist demands, of hurling the traditional anathemas against liberalism, against representative government, against bourgeois competition, bourgeois freedom of the press, bourgeois legislation, bourgeois liberty and equality, and of preaching to the masses that they had nothing to gain, and everything to lose, by this bourgeois movement.
With very few exceptions, all the so-called Socialist and Communist publications that now (1847) circulate in Germany belong to the domain of this foul and enervating literature.
And you call me a socialist because I deny equality, because I affirm just what you live up to.
Yes, I have been to half a dozen of their meetings, but that doesn't make me a socialist any more than hearing Charley Hapgood orate made me a Republican."
"You hate and fear the socialists," he remarked to Mr.
* Candidate for Governor of California on the Socialist ticket in the fall election of 1906 Christian Era.
Here came to dinner all sorts and conditions of men,--scientists, politicians, bankers, merchants, professors, labor leaders, socialists, and anarchists.
Neither, I assure you, does a Socialist mean a man who desires a social evening with the chimney-sweep.
"Letting a top hat sit on you, for instance," said the Socialist.
But no reader of "An Unsocial
Socialist " needs to be told how, by the exercise of a certain considerate tact (which on the outside, perhaps, seems the opposite of tact), I have contrived to maintain genial terms with men and women of all classes, even those whose opinions and political conduct seemed to me most dangerous.
The
Socialist party in Berlin are strong and increasing.