The foregoing should suffice to make it clear that the Socialist agitation is not based on irrefutable scientific doctrines, as Socialists pretend, but on deception. It may be said that no agitation is free from deception, that the end justifies the means, that Socialism means for the best. We have been told "Socialism is a religion of humanity. Socialism is the only hope of the race. Socialism is the remedy—the only remedy—which Lord Salisbury could not find."[278] We must look into the practical proposals of British Socialism in order to be able to judge its character.
FOOTNOTES:
[151] Facts for Socialists, p. 3.
[152] Hazell, Summary of Marx's "Capital," p. 1; Macdonald, Socialism, p. 54.
[153] Socialism made Plain, p. 8.
[154] Hobart, Social-Democracy, p. 7.
[155] Manifesto, Socialist Party of Great Britain, p. 8.
[156] What Socialism Means: Independent Labour Party Leaflet, No. 8, p. 3.
[157] Debs, Industrial Unionism, p. 20.