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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 86

II. Socialism is Possible in Practice

II. Socialism is Possible in Practice.

1.—What a Socialistic Parliament could do.—Details impossible, depend on future inventions. General Plan. Shareholders find managers and clerks now : this will be still easier under Socialism. Quotation, Mill. Transition=Bonds with interest and sinking fund. Ruined and unemployed to go to fields, factories, railways, and reduce hours of labour and or produce more wealth, and be paid enough page 24 to buy Government and municipalities to be organised for this, and composed of competent men. Dishonesty punished by law.

Objections.—I-Risks capital. 2. Producers can't get all. 3. Salaries equal or according to needs. No, tarift according to hours and value of work; Practical Socialism, Ideal Socialism, Communism, Anarchism, Nihilism, not to be confounded. 4. Differences among Socialists. 5. Marx's theory. 6. Religion not attacked. 7. Freethinkers. 8. Pope. 9. Marriage.

2.—How to get a Socialistic Parliament.—Teach educated tenth. Uneducated will follow. Scientific work. General pamphlet. Detailed pamphlets. Newspapers. Lectures. Complete proofs. No unpractical teaching. Communism and Anarchism, separate pamphlets if necessary. Public converted much faster if no revolution, no risks, but only voting. Strikes and Trades Unions Objection.=Traitors in Parliament.