British Socialism / An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals

by J. Ellis Barker

ANALYTICAL INDEX[ToC]

Note.—The abbreviation "f." following a page number signifies "and following page"; "ff." "and following pages."

• Absolutism, Socialism makes for, [460 ff.]
• Abstinence, Co-operation, and Thrift denounced by Socialists, [131 ff.], [311 ff.]
• Administration, Imperial, Socialist views regarding, [179 f.]
  • National, Socialist views regarding, [213 f.]
• Adult suffrage demanded, [213]
• Adulteration, cause of, [84 f.]
• Agitators, Socialistic, appeal to passions, [10], [446], [470]
  • Socialist wish to govern themselves, [411]
• Agriculture, Socialist views on, [261 ff.], [288 ff.]
• Aims and policy of Socialists, [92 ff.]
• Alcoholic drink, expenditure of British workers on, [166], [319], [479]
• Allotments, [262 ff.]
• Ananias, the story of, [385]
• Anarchism and Socialism, similarity of views and aims of, and connection between them, [81], [90], [118], [328], [381 f.], [394 ff.]
• Anarchists, Chicago, and Socialists, [401 f.]
• Anglo-French agreements, views of Socialists on, [188]
• Antwerp Dock strike, [295]
• Appropriation without adequate compensation is theft, [102]
• Arbitration, international, Socialists on, [188], [190 f.]
• Armed nation, why many Socialists are in favour of, [193 ff.]
• Armies, standing, are to be dissolved, [194 ff.]
• Army reform of Mr. Haldane, condemned by Socialists, [197 ff.]
  • Socialist propaganda to undermine discipline and cause revolt in, [200 ff.]
  • Socialist proposals regarding the, [192 ff.]
• Assignats, history of the, [283 f.]
• Atheism, Socialism and, [354 ff.]
  
• Banks and banking, Socialist views on, [258 f.], [278 ff.]
• Barricades, Socialist views on, [258 f.], [278 ff.]
• Barter, international, proposed by Socialists, [279]
• Beneficence, sense of, relied on by Socialists as principal motive in men, [458 f.]
• Betting, expenditure of working men on, [166]
• Blacklegs, British, in Antwerp and Hamburg, [295 f.]
• Bremen, Socialism in, [440]
• British Empire—see Empire, British
• Brotherhood of Man promised and proclaimed by Socialists, [25 f.], [185 ff.], [370], [382], [444]
• Budget, national, Socialist proposals regarding, [160 ff.]
  
• Cade, Jack, [326 f.]
• Capital is theft, [81 f.], [102], [370]
  • national growth of, owing to savings of capitalists, [64 f.]
  • private, cannot leave the country, [153 f.]
    • is immoral, [80 ff.]
    • is not to be tolerated, [152 ff.]
  • why its constant increase is necessary, [45]
• Capitalists and landowners are thieves, [38], [102], [370 f.]
  • and workers, division of national income between, [40 ff.], [75 ff.]
    • relations between, [30 ff.], [75 ff.]
  • are the managers and trustees of the national wealth, [35]
  • employ labour only at a profit, [33]
  • exploit the poor, [31], [75 ff.]
  • greatest, were originally working men, [60]
  • live in idleness, [30], [75 ff.]
  • maintain the workers, not the workers the capitalists, [168]
  • private, are responsible for commercial crises, [67 ff.]
    • are responsible for unemployment, [65 ff.], [125 f.]
    • useless and unnecessary, [155], [168]
    • benefit from unemployment, [69 f.]
    • have no rights and no claims to consideration, [154]
    • their disappearance would be a blessing, [155], [168]
    • usefulness of, [64 f.], [168], [315]
• Carnegie, Andrew, on drink, [321 f.]
• Catechism for the mob, [367]
  • the Red, [372 ff.]
• Cheapness, Socialist views on, [290 ff.]
• Chicago Anarchists and Socialists, [401 f.]
• Children, free maintenance of, demanded, [138]
  • free meals for—see Free Maintenance
  • production of, to be regulated by the State, [347 f.]
  • will belong not to parents but to society, [345 f.]
  • will belong to parents, [348]
• Christ, name of, used for electioneering purposes, [363]
• Christian Socialism, [375 ff.]
  • programmes of, [490 f.]
• Christianity and religion, Socialist attitude towards, [354 ff.]
• Civilisation, Socialist views on, [11 ff.]
• "Clarion," circulation of, [437]
• Class war doctrine, the, [72 ff.]
  • disproved, [79]
• Classes of society, are there only two? [72 ff.]
• Clergy, Socialist views on the, [13]
• Coal, production of, in 1845, [475]
• Cobden, Socialists on, [287]
• Code Napoléon, [329], [344]
• Coin—see Money
• Commandments, the capitalists' ten, [368]
  • the Socialist ten, [371 f.]
• Commons, House of, Socialist views on the, [209 ff.]
• Commune of Paris, Socialists and the insurrection of the, [407 ff.]
• Communism and Socialism, [381 ff.]
  • early Christian, [386]
  • in Sparta, [389]
  • of Fourier, [392 f.]
  • Socialist recommendations of, [21], [381 ff.]
  • why it is impossible, [393]
• Communist manifesto quoted, [77 f.], [92], [103], [107], [112], [183 f.], [332 f.], [405]
• Community of women, [331 ff.]
• Compensation has no place in Socialist ethics, [100 f.]
  • or no compensation in expropriating private property? [95 ff.], [149 f.]
• Competition and co-operation, [82 ff.], [312 ff.], [444 ff.], [470]
• Complaints, the, of Socialists, [30 ff.]
• Compulsory labour, necessity of, in Socialist commonwealth, [455 ff.]
• Confiscation, plans of, [95 ff.]
  • probable result of, [168 f.], [251 f.], [254]
• Contract, freedom of, useless to workers, [33]
• Co-operation and competition, [82 ff.], [312 ff.], [444 ff.], [470]
  • cannot benefit British worker, [31]
  • greatly benefits British worker, [315 ff.]
  • is opposed by Socialists, [84], [131 ff.], [311 ff.]
  • thrift and abstinence denounced by Socialists, [131 ff.], [311 ff.]
• Co-operative societies, record and statistics of the British, [315 ff.]
• Courts-martial, Socialist agitation against, [201 f.]
• Crime—see Justice, Theft
• Crimes, sexual, Socialist views on, [340 ff.]
• Crises caused by private capitalists, [67 ff.]
  • could they be prevented by Socialists? [70 f.], [124 f.]
• Crown, the—see also Monarchy
  • is unfit to administer the Empire, [179]
• Currency—see Money
  
• Debt, Local, huge increase and danger of, [246 ff.]
  • Local, will it be repudiated? [248]
  • National, repudiation of, [110], [156 ff.]
• Demonetisation of gold and silver—see Money
• Desertion of family, frequency of, [307]
• Disarmament, Socialists and, [189 ff.]
• Distribution, alteration of, will abolish misery, [65 ff.]
  • is more important than production, [65 ff.]
    • disproved, [70 f.]
• Division, general, of existing property disclaimed, [93]
  • is the principal aim of Socialists, [471 f.]
• Doctrines, fundamental, of Socialism, [50 ff.]
• Downing Street, Socialist views regarding government from, [179 f.]
• Drink, expenditure of workers on, [166], [319], [479]
• Drunkenness, condemned and combated by foreign Socialists, [322 ff.]
  • excused and encouraged by British Socialists, [319 ff.]
• Duties—see Budget
  
• Economic policy of Great Britain, [474 ff.]
• Education, Socialist views and proposals on, [302 ff.]
• Emigration, [476 f.]
• Empire, British, federation of, opposed by Socialists, [173 f.]
  • federation of, is necessary, [478]
  • German Socialists' views on the, [181 f.]
  • has been a failure, [179]
  • Socialists and the, [170 ff.]
• Employers and capitalists benefit from unemployment, [69 f.]
  • and workers' interests are opposed, [77]
    • identical, [79]
  • are useless, [168]
• England—see Great Britain
• Enterprise, Governmental and municipal, inefficiency and wastefulness of, [85 ff.], [251 ff.]
  • municipal, [240 ff.]
    • is undertaken regardless of cost and profit, [252 ff.]
• Equality of all races proclaimed by Socialists, [185 ff.]
• Esperanto, why studied by Socialists, [188]
• Estate Duty—see Budget
• Expenditure, local, [246]
• Expropriation of private property without compensation, [95 ff.], [149 f.]
  
• Fabian Society, details regarding, [94], [418 ff.]
  • programme of, [486 f.]
• Family, desertion of, very frequent, [307]
  • Karl Marx on, [332]
  • Socialism and the, [330 ff.]
• Fatalism of Socialists, [327 f.], [360 f.]
• Federation, Imperial, opposed by Socialists, [173 f.]
  • why necessary, [478]
• Feeding of school-children—see Free Maintenance
• Fiscal policy, Socialist views on, [285 ff.]
  • reform, why it is necessary, [474 ff.]
• Food—see Agriculture and Protection
• Forced labour, necessity of, in Socialist Commonwealth, [455 ff.]
• Foreign policy, Socialist views on, [183 ff.]
• Fourier, Communism of, [392 f.]
• France, aspect of, before the Revolution, [433]
• Franchise and suffrage in Great Britain and other countries, [213]
• Freedom of contract useless to workers, [33]
• Free love, [330 ff.]
  • maintenance for children, [138], [303 ff.]
  • trade and protection, Karl Marx on, [300]
    • Socialist views on, [285 ff.]
    • why it must be abandoned, [474 ff.]
• Frontiers are to be abolished, [184 ff.]
  
• Gambling spirit in Englishmen, [459]
• German and British Socialism compared, [88], [236], [432 f.]
  • Socialists' patriotic and imperial attitude, [181 f.], [190 f.], [205], [433]
    • views on colonial policy, [181 f.] [190 f.]
      • Great Britain, [181 f.], [190 f.]
• Germany, composition of electorate in, [440]
• Glasgow, vast Socialist plans regarding, [252]
• God—see Religion
• Gold and silver money are to be abolished, [21], [258 f.], [278 ff.]
• Government—see also Administration
  • complaints about, [11 f.], [394 ff.], [411 ff.]
  • of Socialist State, [463 ff.]
• Great Britain, aspect of, resembles pre-Revolution France, [433]
  • changed economic position of, [475 ff.]
  • dangerous position of, [484 f.]
  • German Socialists' views on, [181 f.], [190 f.]
• Grievances of Socialists, [30 ff.]
• Gronland advises Socialists to appeal to the passions, [10]
  
• Haldane, Mr., and Woolwich Arsenal dismissals, [296]
• Hamburg Dock strike, [295]
• History, all, is untrue, [91]
• Home—see Family
• Home Rule, Socialists and, [180]
• House of Commons, Socialist views on the, [209 ff.]
• House of Lords, Socialist views on the, [211]
  • to be abolished, [109], [110], [216] i.
• Human nature and Socialism, [444 ff.]
• Hungry children—see Free Maintenance
  
• Idling, how it is to be prevented, [457 ff.]
• Immorality, sexual, Socialist views regarding, [336 ff.]
• Imperial federation opposed by Socialists, [173 f.]
• Income, national, how divided between capitalists and workers, [40 ff.], [75 ff.]
  • of workers and capitalists compared, [40 ff.] [75 ff.]
• Income-tax—see Budget
• Increasing misery, law of, [56 ff.]
  • disproved, [57 f.]
• Indebtednes, local, [246 ff.]
• Independent Labour Party, details regarding, [417 f.], [435 f.]
  • programme of, [485 f.]
• India, Socialist views and aims regarding, [174 ff.]
• Inheritance, right of, [103 ff.], [108]
• Intemperance—see Drink, Drunkenness, Temperance
• Interest, profit and rent are theft, [38], [80 ff.], [102], [371], [374]
  • Socialist objections to, [38], [80], [258 f.], [280 f.]
• International Arbitration, Socialists on, [188], [190 f.]
  • relations, Socialist views on, [183 ff.], [469]
• Intoxicating drink—see Drink, Drunkenness, Temperance
• Iron law of wages, [53 ff.], [245], [312 f.], [319 f.]
  • disproved, [54 ff.], [313 f.], [320]
• 
  
• Judges, English, Socialists on, [325 f.]
• Justice and Law, Socialist Views regarding, [100 f.], [114], [325 ff.], [396 f.]
  
• Keir Hardie resembles John the Baptist, [28]
  
  • fewer hours of, promised by Socialists, [117 f.]
  • forced, would be necessary in Socialist commonwealth, [455 ff.]
  • is the only source of wealth, [50 ff.]
    • disproved, [52]
  • organisation of, in Socialist commonwealth, [455 ff.]
  • Party, details regarding, [424 ff.]
    • informal programme of, [425 f.]
  • representation committee, details regarding, [424]
  • remuneration of, in Socialist commonwealth, [450 ff.]
  • sweated, proposals regarding, [461]
  • time theory, [450 f.]
• Labour Church, the, and its teaching, [369]
  • absurdity of demand, [62 ff.], [451 ff.]
  • receives only from one-third to one-fifth of his rightful wage, [30], [43], [48 f.]
• Labourer is entitled to entire product of labour, [38], [61], [451]
• Labourers, rural, [266 f.]
  • and Landlords and Socialists, [145 ff.]
  • belongs to all, [102 f.], [145 ff.]
  • individual men have no right to, [102 f.], [145 ff.]
  • is to be had rent free from Socialist State, [146]
  • is not to be had rent free from Socialist State, [146 f.]
  • is to be seized without compensation to owners, [95 ff.], [149 f.], [486]
  • property in, is robbery, [38], [102], [145 ff.], [370]
• Land—see also Agriculture
• Land settlement policy of Socialists, [262 ff.]
• Land Tax—see Budget
• Landowners and capitalists are thieves, [38], [102]
  • iron, of wages, [53 ff.], [245], [312 f.], [319 f.]
    • disproved, [54 ff.], [313] t, [320]
  • of increasing misery, [56 ff.]
    • disproved, [57 f.]
• Law and Justice, Socialist views regarding, [100 f.], [114], [325 ff.], [396 f.]
• Laziness, how it is to be prevented, [457 ff.]
  • views of and attitude towards the, [226 ff.]
• Liberal Party, Socialist dissatisfaction with, [233 ff.]
• Literature, Socialist, increase of sales of, [435 ff.]
• Loafers and tramps, ideal conditions for, to be created by Socialists, [254]
  • Government, Socialist views and proposals regarding, [166], [240 ff.]
  • indebtedness, [246 ff.]
• Local expenditure, [245 f.]
• London, fantastic schemes regarding, [249 ff.]
  • House of, views of Socialists on the, [211]
• Lords, abolition of the House of, demanded, [109], [110], [216 f.]
• Love, free, [330 ff.]
  
• Magdeburg, Socialism in, [440]
  • why demanded, [138], [308]
• Maintenance, free, for children, demanded, [138], [303 ff.]
  • has no right to himself, [102]
  • is not responsible for his actions, [327 f.]
• Man, brotherhood of, promised and proclaimed by Socialists, [25 f.], [185 ff.], [370], [382], [444]
• Man, nature of, and Socialism, [444 ff.]
  • is akin to prostitution, [335 f.]
• Marriage—see also Family, Women
• Marx and Engels, Communists' manifesto quoted, [77 f.], [92], [103], [107 f.], [112], [183 f.], [332 f.], [405]
  • on Christianity and religion, [359], [366]
  • on Free Trade and Protection, [300]
  • on women and the family, [332 f.]
  • political programme of, [107 f.]
  • unmerited praise of, [88 f.]
  • was not a scientist, but a demagogue and a revolutionary, [472]
• Marx, Karl, appreciation of, [89]
• Meals, free, for school children—see Free Maintenance
• Members of Parliament, payment of, advocated, [213], [216]
  • Socialistic attempt to permeate the, [442 f.]
• Middle Class, importance of strengthening the, [441 ff.]
• Middleman, promised suppression of, by Socialists is illusory, [241 f.]
• Military Law, Socialist agitation against, [201 f.]
• Millionaires are criminals, [81]
• Mines and minerals to be taken over without compensation, [149]
• Mir, the, [388]
• Mirabeau on paper money, [283 f.]
  • disproved, [57 f.]
• Misery, law of, increasing, [56 ff.]
  • Socialism and the, [207 f.]
• Monarchy, abolition of, [109], [110], [207 f.]
  • consequences of, [279 f.]
  • banks and banking, Socialist views on, [258 f.], [278 ff.]
• Money, abolition of gold and silver proposed, [21], [258], [278 ff.]
• Morality, sexual. Socialist views regarding, [336 ff.]
  • enterprise, [240 ff.]
  • enterprises are undertaken regardless of cost and profit, [252 ff.]
  • Socialism, [240 ff.]
• Municipal and national enterprise, inefficiency and wastefulness of, [85 ff.], [251 ff.]
  • debt, repudiation of, [110], [156 ff.]
  • enterprise, inefficiency and wastefulness of, [85 ff.], [251 ff.]
  • income, how divided between capitalists and workers, [40 ff.], [75 ff.]
• 
  
• National budget, Socialist views regarding, [160 ff.]
• Nationalisation of land—see Land
• Nature, human, and Socialism, [444 ff.]
  
• Offences, sexual, Socialist views on, [340 ff.]
• Old-age pensions, Socialist plans regarding, [19], [122 f.]
  • fallacies regarding, [70 f.], [85 ff.], [124 f.], [241 f.]
• Opinion, public, under Socialism, [466 f.]
• Organisation of work proposed by Socialists, [17], [70 f.], [124] I, [455 ff.]
  • are not justified, [70 f.]
  • can it be prevented by Socialists? [70 f.], [124 f.]
  • is not the cause of crises and unemployment, but ill-balanced production, [70 f.]
• Organisations, Socialist, and their policy, [415 ff.]
• Over-production, complaints as to, [66 f.]
  • consequences of, [279 f.]
• Overwork, complaints of, [16]
  
• Paper money, unlimited issues of, proposed, [258 f.], [278 ff.]
  • Socialist spirit in, [437 f.]
  • unofficial Socialists in, [438]
• Paris Commune, Socialists and the insurrection of the, [407 ff.]
• Parliament, Socialism and, [209 ff.]
  • the Socialist and their policy, [415 ff.]
• Parliamentary Government to be abolished, [218 ff.]
• Parties, Socialist attitude towards the, [225 ff.]
• Passions, Socialists appeal to the, [10], [446], [470]
• Patriotism, Socialism is destructive of, [114], [186 f.], [202 ff.]
• Pauperism and distress, growth of, under Socialist régime, [242 f.]
• Payment of Members of Parliament advocated, [213], [216]
  • Socialists object to, [262 ff.]
• Peace conference, [189 ff.]
• Peasant proprietors are everywhere hostile to Socialism, [263]
• Peasantry, importance of re-creating the, [443]
  • and aims of Socialists, [92 ff.]
  • fiscal, of Socialists—see Free Trade and Protection
  • foreign, of Socialists—see Foreign Policy
• Pensions to workers, [19], [122]
• Policy, agricultural, of Socialists—see Agriculture
• Poplar, [243]
  • condemned by Socialists, [411], [413]
  • fallacies regarding business aptitude of, [85 ff.]
  • servants, Socialist proposals regarding, [166 f.]
• Postage, Socialist proposals regarding, [166 f.]
  • extravagant Socialist estimates of, [165], [242], [302 f.]
  • complaints about, [16], [33], [165]
  • of the poor is caused by wealth of the rich, [30], [34 ff.], [161]
    • disproved, [35], [159]
• Post Office, British, praised by Socialists, [21]
• Poverty and drink and gambling, [166], [319], [479 f.]
• Press, the, under Socialism, [466 f.]
  • is carried on for the profit of a class, [36]
  • is less important than distribution, [65 ff.]
  • is more important than distribution, [71]
• Private trader to be abolished, [242 ff.]
  • interest and rent are theft, [38], [80 ff.], [102], [371], [374]
  • the working at a, objected to, [33], [38 ff.], [252 ff.]
  • sharing in Socialist commonwealth, [459]
• Production, ill-balanced, causes crises and unemployment, [70 f.]
• Profit, what it is and why it is necessary, [39], [45]
• Programme, political, of Karl Marx, [107 f.]
  • instinct of, is as old as humanity, [444]
• Programmes of Socialism, [92], [107 ff.], [481 ff.]
• Property—see also Capital, Land, Mines
  • is the real object of Socialism, [471 ff.]
  • private, is immoral, [80 ff.]
    • is to be acquired without compensation, [95 ff.], [149 f.], [486]
    • ought to be abolished, [82], [92]
    • Socialist plans regarding, [95 ff.], [149 f.]
  • right to, denned by Socialists, [80], [96 ff.], [102], [145]
• "Property is theft," [81 f.], [102], [370 f.]
  • is akin to marriage, [335 f.]
• Property, private, general division of, disclaimed, [93]
  • and Free Trade, Karl Marx on, [300]
    • Socialist views on, [285 ff.]
• Prostitution, [339 ff.]
• Protection, why it must be adopted, [474 ff.]
• Proudhon quoted, [81], [90]
• Providence—see Thrift
• Public opinion under Socialism, [466 f.]
  
  • nationalisation of, demanded, [271 f.]
    • seems too speculative an undertaking, [277]
  • should be run free of charge to all, [272 ff.]
  • wastefulness and inefficiency of, [269 ff.]
• Railway rates, preferential to foreigners denounced, [269 ff.]
  • increase of, means increase of rent, [243], [245]
• Railways and shipping, Socialist views on, [269 ff.]
• Rates, alarming increase of, [245 f.]
  • opposed by Socialists, [220]
• Red Catechism, the, [372 ff.]
  • social, the true, [480]
• Referendum demanded by Socialists, [217 ff.]
  • Socialism is a, [26], [364 ff.]
  • Socialist views on present, [13], [354 ff.]
  • the, of Socialism, [364 ff.]
• Reform, fiscal, why it is necessary, [474 ff.]
• Religion and Christianity, Socialist attitude towards, [354 ff.]
  • aspect of France before the, [433]
  • Socialists and, [404 ff.]
• Rent, interest and profit are theft, [38], [80 ff.], [102], [371], [374]
• Revolution, French, parallels furnished to Socialist proposals by the, [168 f.], [283 f.] [352 f.], [365 f.]
• Revolutionary aims and plans of Socialists, [77 ff.], [112 ff.], [183 ff.], [200 ff.], [394 ff.], [403], [404 ff.], [410], [470 ff.]
  • are thieves, [80], [102], [370 f.]
  • cause poverty of the poor, [30], [34 ff.], [161]
    • disproved, [35], [159]
• Revolutions always cause depravity of morals, [450]
  • disproved, [35], [159]
• Rich, the, are the managers and trustees of the national wealth, [35]
  • disregarded by Socialists, [461]
• Riches of the rich are the cause of poverty, [30], [34 ff.], [161]
• Right to work, sinister aim of Socialists in proclaiming, [128 f.]
• Rights of individual defined, [102]
• Robbery encouraged by Socialists, [82], [114]
• Rochdale Pioneers, history of the, [315 f.]
• Rural labourers, [266 f.]
  
• Saving—see Thrift
• Savings, contemplated confiscation of, [157 ff.]
• Savings banks deposits, [46]
  • offences and crimes, [340 ff.]
• Selfishness and Socialism, [444 ff.]
• Sexual crimes. Socialist views on, [340 ff.]
  • programme of, [481 ff.]
• Small holdings, [262 ff.]
  • and Christianity and religion, [354 ff.]
  • and Communism, [381 ff.]
  • and education, [302 ff.]
  • and Free Trade and Protection, [285 ff.]
  • and law and justice, [325 ff.]
  • and the monarchy, [207 f.]
  • and Parliament, [209 ff.]
  • and revolution, [395 ff.], [404 ff.]
  • appeals to passions, [10], [446], [470]
  • British and German compared, [88], [206]
  • Christian, [375 ff.]
  • definitions of, I ff., [390], [469]
  • flourishes on dissatisfaction and misery, [131]
  • fundamental doctrines of, [50 ff.]
  • growth and danger of, [431 ff.]
  • is a religion, [2], [26 ff.], [364 ff.]
  • is a science, [1], [2], [3], [87]
  • is based, not on science, but on deception, [91]
  • is destructive of patriotism, [114], [186 f.], [202 ff.]
  • is it possible? [444 ff.]
  • is merely a plan of spoliation and of general division, [471 f.]
  • is not a science, [87], [89 f.], [470 ff.]
  • means absolutism, [460 ff.]
  • municipal, [240 ff.]
    • disregards cost and profit, [252 ff.]
  • presupposes perfect men, [444 ff.]
  • principal demand of, [92]
  • programme of, [92 ff.]
  • progress of, how it may be checked, [440 ff.]
  • promises to alter human nature, [448 f.]
    • to abolish war, [186 f.], [189]
    • to make all races equal, [185 ff.]
    • why it is impossible, [390 f.], [444 ff.]
• Social-Democratic Federation, details regarding, [415 ff.]
  • Labour Party, details regarding, [428]
    • programme of, [488 ff.]
  • literature, increase of sales of, [435 ff.]
  • organisations, the, and their policy, [415 ff.]
  • Party of Great Britain, details regarding, [428]
    • programme of, [487 f.]
  • spirit in Parliament, [437 f.]
  • State, how will it be governed? [463 ff.]
    • of the future, [5 f.], [17 ff.], [444 ff.]
    • -enterprise, will it be more efficient than private enterprise? [85 ff.]
  • Sunday schools, [369 ff.]
• Socialism and Anarchism, similarity of views and aims of, and connection between, [81], [90], [118], [328], [381 f.], [394 ff.]
  • and Chicago Anarchists, [401 f.]
  • and land and landlords, [145 ff.]
  • and revolution, [395 ff.], [404 ff.]
  • and rural labourers, [266 f.]
  • and terrorist outrages, [402 f.]
  • and the Empire, [170 ff.]
  • and the two Parties, [225 ff.]
  • and the working masses, [115 ff.]
  • and Trade Unionists, official connection between, [141 ff.], [434 f.]
    • relations between, [131 ff.], [424 ff.], [434 f.]
  • are antagonistic to providence, thrift, and temperance, [312 ff.]
  • are hostile to the Empire, [170 ff.]
    • to their own country, [114], [186 f.]
  • assert that all history is garbled, [91]
  • assert that man has no right to himself, [102]
  • condemn imperial administration, [179 f.]
    • national administration, [213 f.], [394 ff.], [411 ff.]
    • State Socialism, [411 ff.]
  • consist of two classes, revolutionaries and visionaries, [183]
  • demand free maintenance for children, [138]
    • Government purchase of all British railways and shipping, [271 ff.]
  • denounce co-operation, thrift, and abstinence, [131 ff.]
  • desire the destruction of the State, [381 f.], [394 ff.], [411 ff.]
  • different aims, proposals, and views of, [6 f.]
  • disregard right to work, [461]
  • encourage theft, [82]
  • excuse and encourage drunkenness, [319 ff.],
  • grievances of the, [30 ff.]
  • numbers of, in various countries, [432]
  • on Free Trade and Protection, [285 ff.]
  • oppose co-operation, [84], [312]
  • promise brotherhood of man, [25 f.], [185 ff.], [370], [382], [444]
    • equal wages for all, [22]
    • gratis amusements, [22]
      • baths, [250]
      • clothing, [21]
      • concerts, [250]
      • food, [21]
      • fuel, [21]
      • libraries, [250]
      • lodging, [21]
      • travel and transport on railways and tramways, [22], [250], [272] S.
      • on ships, [275 f.]
      • wash-houses, [250]
      • working men's clubs, [250]
    • to transform the world into a paradise, [19 ff.]
  • propose issuing paper money in unlimited quantities, [258 f.], [278 ff.]
  • revolutionary aims and plans of, [77 ff.], [112 ff.], [183 ff.], [200 ff.], [394 ff.], [403], [404 ff.], [410]
  • try to destroy discipline in the army and so cause it to revolt, [200 ff.]
  • unofficial in Parliament, [438]
  • wish for an international language, [188]
    • to abolish parliamentary government, [218 ff.],
      • the army, [192 ff.]
      • the existing languages, [310]
      • the monarchy, [109], [110], [207 f.]
    • to capture or abolish Parliament, [209 ff.]
    • to conquer Parliament, [238 f.]
    • to dissolve the army, [192 ff.]
  • German, on Peace Conferences, disarmament, and international arbitration, [190 f.]
    • patriotic and imperial attitude of, [181 f.], [190 f.], [205], [433]
    • views of, on colonial policy, [181 f.], [190 f.]
      • regarding Great Britain, [181 f.], [190 f.]
• Socialist and Anarchist doctrines compared, [81], [90 f.]
• Socialists, aims and policy of, [92 ff.]
• Society, Socialist views on, [10 ff.]
• Sparta, Communism in, [389]
  • probable result of, [168 f.], [251 f.], [254]
• Spencer, Herbert, [447 f.]
• Spoliation, plans of, [95] if., [149 f.]
  • Socialism, Socialist attitude towards, [411 ff.]
  • Socialist, of the future, [5 f.], [17 ff.], [444 ff.]
    • how will it be governed? [463 ff.]
  • Socialists are hostile to the, and desire its destruction, [381 f.], [394 ff.], [411 ff.]
• Stamp duties, proposals regarding, [166 f.]
• State enterprise usually inefficient, [85 ff.], [251 ff.]
• Stocks, Municipal, are no longer first-class investments, [258]
  • and franchise in Great Britain and other countries, [213]
  • reform demanded, [213 f.]
• Stuttgart, International Socialist Congress at, [90], [177]
  • schools, Socialist, [369 ff.]
• Suffrage, adult, demanded, [213]
  • disproved, [59 f.]
• Sunday, will it be abolished? [365]
• Surplus-value doctrine, [58 ff.], [244 f.]
• Sweated labour proposals of Socialists, [461]
  
  • leading Socialist principle of, [255]
  • local—see Rates
  • national—see Budget
• Tariff reform, Socialist views on, [285 ff.]
• Taxation, indirect, condemned by Socialists, [165 f.]
  • praised and encouraged by foreign Socialists, [322 ff.]
  • providence, and thrift are antagonistic to Socialism, [131 ff.], [312 ff.]
    • Socialistic views on, [131 ff.], [311 ff.]
• Taxing private property out of existence, plans for, [99 f.], [149], [153], [160 ff.], [244 f.], [255]
  • the Socialist, [371 f.]
• Temperance condemned by British Socialists, [319 ff.]
• Ten Commandments, the capitalists', [368]
• Terrorist outrages. Socialist views on, [402 f.]
  • is immoral, [314 f.]
  • is theft, [155]
  • providence, and temperance are antagonistic to Socialism, [131 ff.], [312 ff.]
    • Socialist views on, [131 ff.], [311 ff.]
• Theft encouraged by Socialists, [82], [114]
  • relations between, [131 ff.], [424 ff.], [434 f.]
  • Unions and unemployed problem, [127 ff.]
    • have become Socialistic, [141 ff.], [434 f.], [471]
    • secretaries are to administer the Empire, [179]
• Thrift denounced by Socialists, [131 ff.], [155], [311 ff.]
• Trade Unionists and Socialists, official connection between, [141 ff.], [434 f.]
• Trader, private, to be abolished, [242 ff.]
• Tramps and loafers, ideal conditions for, to be created by Socialists, [254]
  
  • and agriculture, [266]
• Underfeeding—see Free Maintenance
  • could it be prevented by Socialists? [124 f.]
  • is due to private capital, [65 ff.], [125 f.]
    • disproved, [126 f.]
  • real causes of, [70 f.], [124 ff.], [474 ff.]
  • sinister aims of Socialists regarding, [128 f.]
  • Socialist plans regarding, [123 ff.]
    • views on, [67 ff.], [123 ff.]
• Unemployed, the, [37], [474 ff.]
• Unemployment benefits employers, [69 f.]
• Usury—see Interest
  
  • are to be abolished, [6], [21]
  • are not to be abolished, [22], [278], [386 f.], [450 ff.]
  • are to be equal for all, [22], [278], [386 f.], [450 ff.]
  • are not to be equal for all, [390], [450 ff.]
  • different views of Socialists regarding, [6], [450 ff.]
  • factors determining amount of, [54 ff.], [313 f.]
  • great increase of, in Socialist State promised by Socialists, [118 ff.]
    • doubted by German Socialists, [120]
  • iron law of, [53 ff.], [245], [312 f.], [319 f.]
    • disproved, [54 ff.], [313 f.], [320]
  • rise in, [57 f.]
• Votes for women, [222 ff.]
  
• Wages, amount and purchasing-power of, depends on production, [120 f.]
  • disproved, [35], [159]
  • is a crime, [80 ff.]
  • labour is the only source of, [50 ff.]
    • disproved, [52]
  • love of, will disappear, [23], [448]
  • various sources of, [52]
  • why unequally distributed, [473]
• War will be abolished by Socialists, [186 f.], [189]
• Wealth creates poverty, [30], [34 ff.], [161]
  • will be given the vote, [222 ff.], [349]
  • will be made equal to man, [349 f.]
  • will be made free, [349]
  • will have to work for a living, [349 f.]
  • will her privileges be abolished? [350 f.]
  • will receive wages for childbearing, [345]
• West Ham, [243], [363]
  • Karl Marx on, [332 f.]
• Woman, the family, and the home. Socialism and, [330 ff.]
  • Social and Political Union, [429]
    • split in, [429]
  • suffrage. Socialist views on, [222 ff.]
• Women, community of, [331]
• Women's Freedom League, [429]
  • is a curse, [115]
  • organisation of, in Socialist Commonwealth, [455 ff.]
  • remuneration of, in Socialist Commonwealth, [450 ff.]
  • Socialist views regarding, [115 ff.]
• Woolwich Arsenal dismissals, [296].
  • relations between, [30 ff.]
  • are entitled to entire produce of their labour, [38], [61 ff.], [451]
    • absurdity of demand, [62 ff.], [451 ff.]
  • are most prosperous where capitalists are richest, [35], [159]
  • are swindled out of their earnings, [34]
  • become capitalists every day, [60]
  • British, are slaves, [15], [18], [31 f.]
    • how to improve conditions of, [474 ff.]
  • cannot acquire capital, [31 ff.]
  • expenditure of, on betting, [166], [479 f.]
  • on drink, [106], [319], [479 f.]
  • miserable state of, [13 ff.]
  • possess absolutely nothing, [33]
  • poverty of, [16], [33], [165]
  • receive only from one-third to one-fifth of their rightful wages, [30], [43], [48 f.]
  • value of property owned by, [46]
• Work, fewer hours of, promised by Socialists, [117 f.]
• Workers and capitalists, division of national income between, [40 ff.], [75 f.].
• Working masses and Socialists, [115 ff.]

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