[563] Platform, Constitutions, Rules, and Standing Orders, Socialist Labour Party, pp. 2, 3.

[564] See The Socialist Annual, 1907, p. 25.

[565] Glyde, Britain's Disgrace, p. 9.

[566] Davidson, The New Book of Kings, p. 107.


CHAPTER XV[ToC]

SOCIALIST VIEWS ON PARLIAMENT AND THE NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION

The opinion of most Socialists with regard to the British Parliament is well summed up in the phrase "Parliament a way to the Democracy? Why, 'tis not a road at all, but only a barricade across our road."[567] It will be seen in this and the following Chapter that Socialism means either to capture and hold that barricade or to pull it down.