Loveman, Robert. (Poet.)
I believe Plato favored an ideal commonwealth, and I favor Plato.
Walt Whitman was inclined towards the Utopian theory—and Walt was a poet with a "yawp," that was perhaps barbarian—but it was emphatic.
I am something of a Socialist—a little of a Communist—I hope not much of an Anarchist—and I believe with Lincoln that "God must love the common people—He made so many of them."
Wm. Morris, the English poet, had Socialistic theories—and headed a movement in 1884, I believe—so we have plenty of example. I do not hate the rich—but I pity the poor—and I do not think a few men should own billions—and hoard the wealth—and that millions of human kind starving, barely exist. We are still savage.
Post, Louis Freeland. (Editor, The Public, Chicago, Ill.)
I am in favor of Socialism because it aims at abolishing the exploitation of labor.