VI. GENERAL
1. ORIGIN OF THE WORD "COLLECTIVISM"
"This word, invented by Colins, came into common use toward the end of the Empire. Bakunin used it in the congress at Berne in 1868, to oppose it to the communistic régime of Cabet. An economist in 1869 designated, under this name, the system under which production will be confined to communes or parishes. The Socialists who opposed authority, disciples of Bakunin, used the word for a long time to designate their doctrine. The section of Locle was one of the first to employ it. But by and by, about 1878, the Marxists, partisans of the proletarian reign, used the word 'collectivism' to distinguish their 'scientific Socialism,' of which term they were fond, from the communistic utopias of the older school, which they discovered. And they gave to Bakunins the name Anarchists. These accepted the name, taking care to write it with a hyphen, an-archie, as their master Proudhon had done. They soon dropped the hyphen and accepted the word anarchy as a declaration of war against all things as they are."[1]
2. TABLE SHOWING RESULTS OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
(Compiled from Report of Secretary of the International, 1910)
| Country | No. Socialist Votes | Total No. Seats in Parliament | No. Seats Held by Socialists | Per cent. of Socialists Seats |
| Great Britain (1910) | 505,690 | 670 | 40 | 5.97 |
| Germany (1912) | 4,250,000 | 397 | 110 | 38.81 |
| Luxemburg (1909) | — | 48 | 10 | 20.8 |
| Austria (1907) | 1,041,948 | 516 | 88 | 17.06 |
| France (1910) | 1,106,047 | 584 | 76 | 13.01 |
| Italy (1909) | 338,885 | 508 | 42 | 8.26 |
| Spain (1910) | 40,000 | 404 | 1 | 0.25 |
| Russia | — | 442 | 17 | 3.82 |
| Finland (1910) | 316,951 | 200 | 86 | 43.00 |
| Norway (1907) | 90,000 | 123 | 11 | 8.94 |
| Sweden (1909) | 75,000 | 165 | 36 | 21.81 |
| Denmark (1910) | 98,721 | 114 | 24 | 21.06 |
| Holland (1909) | 82,494 | 100 | 7 | 7.00 |
| Belgium (1910) | 483,241 | 166 | 35 | 21.08 |
| Switzerland (1908) | 100,000 | 170 | 7 | 4.11 |
| Turkey (1908) | — | 196 | 6 | 3.06 |
| Servia (1908) | 3,056 | 160 | 1 | 0.62 |
| U.S.A. (1910) | — | — | 1 | — |
In 1910 the Socialists Held the Following Number of Local Officers, According to the Report of the International Secretary
| Great Britain | 1126 | Finland | 351 |
| Germany | 7729 | Norway | 873 |
| Austria-Bohemia | 2896 | Sweden | 125 |
| Hungary | 96 | Denmark | 1000 |
| France | 3800 | Belgium | 850 |
| Bulgaria | 7 | Servia | 22 |