Come over and help the Party ed to attack every form of effort—pledged to the nationalization of industries, the abolition of the Monarcliy, to the destruction of the Church, to establish what they call universal equality and a State which shall be the sole employer—the Servile State such as has been established in Russia where no man's life is safe and neither liberty nor food can be reckoned upon?
I know Mr, Thomas would say, "Oh, I don't believe in that; such a condition of affairs could not arise; I am not striving to that end; I am all for peace and contentment and happiness and goodwill, but the worker must be on But you cannot stop there. Mr. Mann is not going to stop there; nor Mr, Smillie, nor Mr. Williams, nor Mr. Cramp, nor the LIP., nor the S.W.F. They want all present conditions reversed; they say so in their speeches and in the literature of their societies. Wealth and property is to change hands, that which is at the top to-day is to be perpetually thrust to the bottom, On any Evin.
It is no new doctrine. It goes beak long before the I-L.P. and the International Federation, long before even Karl Marx. It goes back og far as the middle of the 18th century when a German professor founded a society which aimed at world revolution. Christianity was tv be dethroned, patriotism and loyalty to one's country were narrow-minded prejudices; property accumulated by long-continued and successful industry was to be ne tionalized and liberty and equality with the manual worker in the ascendant was the goal to be achieved.
That was the doctrine of the French Revolution which almost ruined France; it was the gospel of the commune in 1848 with its national workshops which failed so ignominiously and reduced France to bankruptcy; it was the doctrine which Karl Marx preached here in the early seventies; it is the doctrine which Lenin has endeavoured to practise and which has ruined and devastated a great empire.
But it is still the doctrine, if you read the Socialist papers and the speeches of our own extremists, which is at the back of the Socialistic movement here. An old doctrine—not a mew one—a
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