INDEX

Alexander II., great hopes at his accession, [256];

rise of the revolutionary party during his reign, [257];

assassination, [265].

Alexander III., and the revolutionary party, [270], [325].

Allen, W., [62].

Altruism, [11].

America, no class divisions till the middle of the nineteenth century, [334]; great transformation in industrial conditions, [335];

organised capital confronted with organised labour, [335]-336;

the plutocracy and Rockefeller, [371];

problem before the American people, [372], etc.

Anarchism, first taught by Proudhon, [56];

the Marx school and the anarchist, [151];

its relation to the International, [190]-192;

Michael Bakunin, its great apostle, [237];

set forth by Bakunin, [240], etc.;

and at the trial at Lyons, [243]-245;

summed up and criticised, [246];

a leading form of socialism in Russia, [257]-272;

France, Italy, [243], [324];

in Spain, [324].

Anarchy, socialism wrongly identified with, [7].

Art as related to socialism, [11].

Association of all classes of all nations founded by Owen, [3].

Association, productive, with State help, [108], [110], [119].

Australia, Labour Party in, [334];

its power limited by circumstances, [393]-394.

Austria, 325, [377]-378.

Babeuf, his communism, [18].

Bakunin, Michael, at Paris, [42];

activity in the International, [190], [191];

his life, [237];

opinions, [240];

his influence in Russia, [260].

Bax, Belfort, [329].

Bazard, [26].

Bebel, [208], [212], [218], [315], etc., [380].

Belgium, [319].

Bentham, Jeremy, [62].

Bernstein, [220], [314].

Bismarck, his work in German history, [79];

his historic insight, [94];

his relation to the German Social Democracy, [216], etc.;

his State socialism, [347].

Blanc, Louis, his method of remuneration, [9];

his activity during the Revolution of 1848, [42];

life and theories, [43];

points of agreement with Lassalle, [273], [274].

Bourgeoisie, the middle or capitalist class, [41], [98], [139], etc., [172], etc.;

its position in Russia, [255], [266];

a theory of Marx, [411].

Capital, aim of socialism with regard to it, [8], [9], [10], etc.;

contrast between labour and capital, [25];

individual capital, an institution in Fourier’s system, [38], [40];

how regarded by L. Blanc, [45], [46];

by Proudhon, [56];

how to be obtained by the productive associations of Lassalle, [108];

a historic category, [113];

word wrongly used by socialists, [114];

exposition of capital by Marx, [138], etc.;

its international relation to labour, [171], etc.;

its place in anarchism, [241], [245];

its place in a reasonable socialism, [290], etc.

Capitalism, correct name for the prevalent economic order as controlled by capitalists, [115], [141], [145].

Catholic Church, its societies and their property, [16];

how related to Saint-Simon, [25], [29];

its social activity, [340].

Chartism, its import, [42], [70].

Christian socialism, in England, [71];

in Germany, [342].

Christian Social Union, [343].

Christianity, relation to socialism, [10], [71], [339], [389].

Clifford, [343].

Collectivism, economic basis of the prevalent socialism, [12];

its place in L. Blanc’s system, [46];

goal of Lassalle’s scheme, [111];

economic basis of anarchism, [247], [249];

goal of the social democratic movement, [229];

its abstractness criticised, [290];

the goal of international socialism, [369].

Colonial system, [368].

Commune, the, its place in Fourier’s system, [31];

at Paris, [188];

its place in anarchism, [243], [273];

its general place in socialism, [289], [346].

Communism, its relation to socialism, [16], [18].

Communist Party, formation, [133], [172];

its manifesto, [173], etc., [366], etc.

Conjunctures, Lassalle’s theory of, [112].

Co-operative movement, really founded by Owen, [70];

promoted by Christian socialists in England, [71];

movement in Germany and its relation to Lassalle, [84], [106], [107], [116];

commended by the International, [180], [184], [185];

its recent progress, [350], etc.

Darwin, relation of his doctrine of development to economics, [281];

relation of his teaching to that of Marx, [294];

relation of his theory to socialism, [295], etc.

Democracy, socialism its economic complement, [10];

one of the conditions necessary for the growth of socialism, [18];

the political basis of L. Blanc’s schemes, [43], etc.;

development of, [47];

democracy of workers, [99], [120];

how trained for its great task, [148], [160];

its importance, [284], [287], [288];

its place in social evolution, [357], [381], etc.

Denmark, [318].

Distribution, problem of, how solved in various schools of socialism, [9];

such methods criticised, [291];

moral and scientific basis of, [360].

Dönniges, Fraulein von, [91].

Empire, the conception of, and socialism, [406]-409.

Enfantin, [26], [27], [29].

Engels, Fr., [73], [130], [132], [135];

his exposition of the function of the State, [150].

Fabian Society, origin and aims, [329], [330];

some of its views criticised, [331], [400], [401];

its basis, [427].

Feudalism, in relation to socialism, [11], [19], [24];

its overthrow by the capitalist class, [97], [142];

not a stereotyped system, [278];

evolved by the struggle for existence, [298].

Fourier, method of remuneration, [9];

admitted private capital, [13];

a founder of socialism, [15];

grew up under the immediate influence of the French Revolution, [18];

life and opinions, [31];

contrast to Saint-Simon and the centralising socialism, [31], [273], [274];

his safeguards for individual and local freedom, [290].

George, Henry, [328].

Hegel, influence on Lassalle, [74];

on Marx, [131], [151], [152], [161], [279];

his doctrine of development, [294].

Held, Adolf, definition of socialism, [5].

Holland, [318].

Homestead, its place in a reasonable socialism, [407].

Hyndman, [328].

Independent Labour Party, [330], [332].

India, [368], [408].

Individuality under socialism, [11], [307], [406], [420].

International, its aim, [6];

Marx and the International, [166];

history, [168];

influence in it of Bakunin, [190];

influence of it on the Russian revolutionary movement, [260];

revival, [363], etc.

Italy, [322], [381], [391].

Janet, Paul, definition of socialism, [5].

Jaurèz, [321].

Keir Hardie, Mr., [333].

Kent, Duke of, [66].

Ketteler, Bishop, [88], [340].

Kingsley, [71].

Kropotkin, Prince, [243], [244].

Labour Party in Britain, how founded, [332]-333;

its strength and character, [333].

Laissez-faire, [4];

economic optimism implied in it, [14];

entirely unsuitable to Prussia, [280];

its adherents in England, [347];

influence on labour, [398].

Lassalle, at Paris, [42];

on the power of lying, [49];

his life, [73];

his theories, [95];

his relations to Marx, [95];

Rodbertus, [95], [124];

position of the Social Democratic Party at his death, [203];

Bismarck’s relation to him, [216];

his influence on the revolutionary party in Russia, [259];

points of agreement with L. Blanc, [273], [274];

his presentation of socialism, [279];

exaggerated estimate of the influence of the social principle, [306];

his Iron Law of Wages, considered in relation to the evolution of capitalism, [409].

Laveleye, definition of socialism, [5].

Lavroff, [243], [260].

Leroux, Pierre, [26].

Liebknecht, W., [208], [210], [218], [233], etc., [316].

Lodge, Senator, on the very serious situation established by the trusts, [372], [376].

Ludlow, [71].

Malthus, relation to Owen, [69];

his theory and the population question, [296];

struggle for existence, [297].

Manchester theory of the State, [102].

Marx, Karl, his relation to the existing State, [6];

his school the most influential form of contemporary socialism, [15];

Proudhon’s right of aubaine, compared with the theory of capital, [56];

his theory of surplus value enunciated by the Chartists, [71];

comparison of his character with Lassalle’s, [92];

relation of his theory of surplus value to Lassalle’s Iron Law of Wages, [103];

collectivism common to him with Lassalle and Rodbertus, [111];

use of the word capital, [114];

life and theories, [130];

criticism of his theories, [154];

compared with Adam Smith, [162];

his place in history, [166];

founding of the Communist League, [172];

influence on the International, [179], etc.;

influence on the Social Democratic movement in Germany, [230];

influence on the revolutionary movement in Russia, [259];

socialist movement should not be identified with his views, [275];

his abstractness, [279];

in England, [328];

his views criticised, [386], etc., [411], etc.

Materialism, relation to socialism, [10];

as held by Marx, [151], [158], etc.;

held by Bakunin, [240];

socialism purified from it, [285].

Maurice, [71].

Mazzini, [179], [243].

Militarism, [368].

Mill, J. S., his conception of socialism, [286].

Milton, [414].

Mir, the Russian form of the village community, [251], etc.;

its analogy to the community of Owen, the phalange of Fourier, and the free commune of Bakunin, [273];

its possible disintegration, [384];

the starting-point of agrarian reform, [392].

More, Thomas, [16].

Municipality, or commune, as a factor in the evolution of socialism, [189], [346], etc.

Napoleon I., [169].

Napoleon III., [57], [178].

New Christianity of Saint-Simon, [25].

New Harmony, [66].

New Lanark, [60].

New Zealand, a democratic State, [349].

Nicholas, Emperor, [63].

Nihilism, the correct name for the early stage of the revolutionary movement in Russia, [257], etc.

Orbiston, [96].

Owen, Robert, founder of the association of all classes of all nations, [3];

one of the historic founders of socialism, [4], etc.;

the influences that conditioned his work, [19];

life and theories, [59];

doctrine of surplus value held in his school, [137];

influence on Russian revolutionary movement, [259];

desire for a ready-made socialism, [273].

Phalange, [31], [33], [273].

Plato, [16].

Political economy, its relation to socialism, [14];

historical and ethical conception of, promoted by socialism, [281];

its relation to socialism again considered, [338], [339], [409]-410.

Progressist party in Germany, [79], [83], [208].

Proletariat, the class excluded from land and capital and dependent on wage-labour, [8];

brought into active historic contrast to the bourgeoisie, [41];

its share in the risings at Paris, 1848, [50];

its position conditioned by the development of capitalism, [139];

and necessary to it, [141];

its great rôle in the final dissolution of capitalism, [148], etc.;

its emancipation, the great aim of international socialism, [172];

Marx the scientific expounder of the conditions of its existence and of its emancipation, [173], etc.;

the Commune at Paris considered as a struggle for its deliverance, [189];

how existing in Russia, [260];

the democracy still mainly a proletariat, [357];

Marx’s theory of its future development, [412].

Proudhon, one of the leaders of the socialism of 1848, [42];

life and theories, [51];

theory of surplus value underlies his extravagances, [137];

the founder of anarchism, [56], [237];

his influence in the International, [183];

his exposition of anarchism, [248].

Ralahine, [67].

Reybaud, [4].

Rockefeller, [371], [376].

Rodbertus, his general conception of socialism, [13];

relation to Lassalle, [95], [96];

life and theories, [123];

relation to Lassalle and Marx, [137];

too abstract and Prussian, [279].

Roosevelt, his proposals for social reform, [399].

Roscher, [5].

Rousseau, [18].

Russia, the development of socialistic opinion, [21];

anarchism, [237];

revolutionary opinion, [250], etc.;

renewal of revolutionary activity, [325]-327;

its repression, [382]-384.

Saint-Simon, one of the historic founders of socialism, [4], [15], etc.;

his life and opinions, [22];

represented the principle of authority in the development of socialism, [274];

the golden age, [420].

Schäffle, definition of socialism, [12];

too abstract and Prussian in his conception of socialism, [277];

his high rank as an economist, [339].

Scheel, [6].

Schulze-Delitzsch, his schemes, [84];

Lassalle’s treatment of him, [86];

Lassalle’s criticism of his schemes, [107];

the same examined, [115], etc.

Schweitzer, [203], [207], etc.

Shaw, G. B., [330].

Smith, Adam, in relation to freedom, [17];

compared with Marx, [162];

his principle of natural liberty, [278], [292].

Social Democracy, its programme in Germany, [9];

as taught by L. Blanc, [48];

by Lassalle, [84], etc.;

German, [197], etc., [311], etc.;

its general aim, [363], etc.

Social Democratic Federation, [329].

Social selection, [304], [416].

Social workshops of Louis Blanc, [45], [48].

Socialist League, [329].

Socialist Revolutionary Party in Russia, [326], [382].

Spectator, [382].

State, in relation to socialism, [6];

historic relation to property, [16];

its place in Saint-Simon, [31];

in Louis Blanc, [44];

in Lassalle, [101], etc.;

in Rodbertus, [127];

its rôle as explained by Fr. Engels, [150];

Bakunin’s relation to it, [240];

two opposing tendencies with regard to it in socialist movement, [274];

its place in socialism, [345], etc.;

further discussed, [400], [401], [405]-409.

Stepniak’s estimate of the numbers of the Russian Revolutionary Party, [271].

Strike, general, advocated by Bebel to meet certain emergencies, [316].

Surplus value, theory of, as held by Chartists, [71];

as held by Owenites, Rodbertus, Proudhon, etc., [137];

its development by Marx, [138], etc.;

criticism of Marx’s theory of it, [154].

Times, the, and the International, [187].

Trade unions and socialism, [367], [369], [391]-405.

Trusts, how they have grown in America, [335]-337;

a remedy for the evils of competition, [354]-355;

not confined to America, [355];

a proof of the inadequacy of competition, [359], but a natural result of it, [404];

a menace to labour and to society, [411].

Turgenief, his novel, Fathers and Sons, [258].

Tytherley, [67].

Tzardom, its great function in Russian history, [251], [266], etc.

Vienna, great demonstration, [377].

Village community, its place in history, [253];

in English history, [397];

should be restored to life under modern conditions, [407].

Voltaire, [18], [246].

Vooruit, at Ghent, [352].

Wages, Iron Law of, [103], etc., [384].

Wagner, definition of socialism, [12];

justly charged with abstractness, [277].

Webb, Sidney, [330].

Wells, H. G., [330].

Westcott, [343].

William I., Emperor, [79].

William II., Emperor, [121], [195].

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