A Critical Examination of Socialism

by W. H. Mallock

Ability, and labour defined, [19];
labour as opposed to, [29];
capital as the implement of, [32];
a name for the directive faculties, [33];
value of directive, [68];
monopoly of business, [89], [93];
and individual motive, [110];
modern socialists' recognition of products due to, [191];
rent of business, [191], [194]
Abstract justice, interest and, [204], [206], [208], [210], [212], [214], [216], [218],
[220], [222], [224], [226]
Activity, two kinds represented by two groups of, [28];
military distinct from industrial, [121]
Agriculture, Mill on nature in, [181];
and rent, [192]
Allen, Grant, The Woman Who Did, [147]
Arkwright, the inventor of the spinning-frame, [83], [197]
Artist, the case of an, [115]
Bastiat, his plane, [213], [214]
Bellamy, Looking Backward, [92];
his description of a socialistic Utopia, [92];
his argument, [105]
Bessemer, [197], [220]
Boy messengers, [80]
Bradlaugh, Charles, [85]
Brazil, Rossi fails to found a socialistic colony in, [141]
Brigand chief, his justification, [206]
Capital, is labour in an externalised and permanent form, [14];
is past labour crystallised, [14], [20];
as the implement of ability, [32];
fixed and circulating, [35];
the primary function of, [40];
its interest described by George as the gift of nature, [212]
Capitalism (a comparatively modern phenomenon), causes of its accelerated
development, [2];
as a working system, [3];
essence of modern, [14];
and wages, [16];
state and private, [62], [71];
economics of: the "economic man" and economic science, [123], [124]
Cause and effect, [185]
Cellini, Benvenuto, [24]
Christian socialism as a substitute for secular democracy,
see Democracy; the message of, [153];
its view of the steel-kings and the oil-kings, [153], [158], [160];
its preaching a species of ecclesiastical electioneering, [156];
and the faculty of invention, [159];
abolishes competition, [160];
on the moral conversion of able men, [160]
Christian Socialist, The, [150]
Christian socialists, are simply secular socialists of the more modern and educated type, [163];
their temperamental deficiency finds its fullest expression in socialism, [172]
Coleridge, Lord, [135]
Colossal fortunes, growth of, [130], [131]
Competition, [160]
Corvée system, and slavery, [57], [58]
Crozier, Dr. Beattie, Wheel of Wealth, [217], [218], [236]
Darby of Coalbrookdale, [83]
Demand and supply, [143]
Democracy, [130], [132], [134], [136], [138], [140], [142], [144], [146], [148];
Christian socialism as a substitute for secular, [150], [152], [154], [156],
[158], [160], [162], [164], [166], [168], [170], [172], [174]
Direction, wage-capital an implement of, [70]
Directive ability, [191];
its value, [68];
and socialism, [87];
and labour, [182], [187], [189] to [193]
—— faculties, [31];
function of the, as applied to the operations of modern labour, [29];
their function, illustrated by the case of a printed book, [29];
name for the, [33]
Dudley, [82]
Eclecticism, [186]
Economic distinction, abolished by the truly socialistic scheme, [58]
Economic emancipation, is entire abolition of the wage-system, [56]
—— man, the, [111], [123]
—— motive, personal gain the primary, [127]
—— opportunity, [254]
—— science, capitalism and, [124];
its reasonings, [177]
—— values, [166]
Economics of capitalism, [123]
Eddy, Mrs., her Christian science, [150]
Edison, [47], [150], [197], [220]
Education, its ideal object as a means of happiness, [273]
Electric lighting of London, [84]
Equality of opportunity, [253], [254], [256], [258], [260], [262], [264], [266], [268],
[270], [272], [274], [276]
Equilibrium an ideal, [288]
Evolution, organic, [85]
Evolutionary socialists, [102]
—— sociology, [94]
Fabian Essays, [58]
Family life, [135], [140], [141]
Fighting instinct, the, [121]
France, state monopolies in, [80]
Frederick the Great, [99]
French revolution, [206]
George, Henry, [210], [211]
"Gospel for To-day, The," [151], [153], [157], [159]
Great Eastern, The, [264]
Greed, [125]
Gronlünd, a disciple of Marx, [18]
Happiness, an equation between desire and attainment, [273]
Harrison, Frederic, the English prophet of Positivism, [118];
on the soldier's willing service, [120]
Helots in Sparta, [59]
Heroism, socialists' view of, [118], [122]
Hillquit, Mr., the American socialist, [42], [43], [50];
and "common manual labour," [48], [50];
his irrelevancies, [50];
his argument, [51], [53];
verbal jugglery of, [53]
Ideal equilibrium, an, [288]
Income, of labour, [197];
earned and unearned, [226]
Individual motive and democracy, [130], [132], [134], [136], [138], [140], [142], [144],
[146], [148]
Industrial effort, its progress depends on thought and the advance of
knowledge, [32];
productivity of, [157]
—— productivity, [195]
—— towns, present structure of great, [294]
Industry, state-directed, [81];
the iron, [82]
Intellect, inequalities of the human, [102], [107]
Interest, and abstract justice, [204], [206], [208], [210], [212], [214], [216], [218],
[220], [222], [224], [226];
socialistic attack on, [227], [228], [230], [232], [234], [236], [238], [240], [242], [244],
[246], [248], [250], [252]
Invention, Christian socialists on the faculty of, [159]
Inventors, [160] to [162]
Iron industry, the, [82]
Jesuit Fathers in Uruguay, [193]
Just reward of labour, [176], [178], [180], [182], [184], [186], [188], [190], [192], [194],
[196], [198], [200], [202]
Justice, interest and abstract, [204], [206], [208], [210], [212], [214], [216], [218],
[220], [222], [224], [226]
Kidd, on rival and independent claims, [93];
his argument, [103], [106]
Labour, as a wealth-producer, [11], [21], [42];
definition of ability and, [19];
two distinguishable kinds of, [23];
a productive agent, [25], [199];
directive, [31], [71], [75], [77], [78];
emancipation of, [47];
the Marxian doctrine of the all-productivity of, [47];
by itself, impotent to produce the wealth of modern nations, [54];
and the socialistic promise, [127];
as estimated by its actual products—the just reward of, [176], [178], [180],
[182], [184], [186], [188], [190], [192], [194], [196], [198], [200], [202];
income of, [197], [295];
as opposed to ability, [291]
Labour-certificates, [12]
Labourer, the ordinary manual, [66], [67], [174]
Laplace, [91]
Legislation, [134], [135];
and the Government's will, [136]
Lombe, the great silk-factory erected at Derby by, [197]
L.C.C. steamboats, [73]
Macaulay, Essay on Dryden, [92];
on the absurdity of confounding speculative sociology with practical, [101]
Machine-capital, [219]
Machinery, a development of capitalism, [2];
Marx on, [27];
embodies labour directed in a new way, [38];
the question of, [88]
Majority, will of the, [129], [139], [140];
powers of the "sovereign," [137]
Marx, Karl, his formula, [7];
his treatise on capital, [8];
his theory summarised, [9], [10], [12], [14], [16], [18], [20];
his doctrine of scientific socialism, [11], [18];
his falsified prophecies, [17];
errors of, [19], [20], [22], [24], [26], [28], [30], [32], [34], [36], [38], [40];
on machinery, [27];
repudiated by modern socialists, [41], [42], [44], [46], [48], [50], [52], [54], [56], [58],
[60], [62], [64], [66], [68]
Melba, [116], [144]
Military, distinct from industrial, activity, [121]
Mill, J.S., [2], [32]; Political Economy, [20], [21], [179];
on nature in agriculture, [180], [181]
Modern socialists, their repudiation of Marx, q.v.;
and the question of motive, [90], [111], [113];
their assertion, [115]
Monastic orders, [117]
Monopolists, [93]
Monopoly, modern capital is, [38];
of business-ability, [89], [93]
Motive, ability, and individual, [110]
—— individual, [130], [132], [134], [136], [138], [140], [142], [144], [146], [148]
—— practical as distinct from moral, [287]
—— socialists and, [90], [111], [113]
Motives, discussion of various, [113] to [115]
Multi-millionaires, [131] to [133];
a suggested limit, [138]
Napoleon III., [99]
North American Review, [130]
Opportunity, equality of, [253], [254], [256], [258], [260], [262], [264], [266], [268],
[270], [272], [274], [276]
Orders, monastic, [117]
Organic evolution, [185]
—— nature, products of, [210]
Owen, Robert, [170];
his views on socialism, [7]
Peasant proprietors, [20], [57]
Penny post, [79]
Plane, Bastiat's, [213], [214]
Positivism, Frederic Harrison, the English prophet of, [118] to [120]
Post Office, British, [79]
Postal employé, the, [260], [261]
Press, a state, [85]
Problems of practical life, [95]
Product, correspondence between productive effort and, [207]
Production, unequal powers of, [142], [254];
labour, capital, and law the only factors in, [191]
Productive agent, labour as a, [25], [199]
—— effort, the astounding advances of the efficiency of, [26]
Productivity, industrial, [195]
Rent, of business-ability, the, [191], [194];
and agriculture, [192]
Reward of labour, as estimated by its actual products, just, [176], [178],
[180], [182], [184], [186], [188], [190], [192], [194], [196], [198], [200], [202]
Ricardo, [2], [12], [32], [92]
Roosevelt, President, [169]
Rossi, Govanni, the Italian socialist, his failure to found a socialistic colony in Brazil, [141]
Rousseau, his theory of the social contract, [283], [284]
Ruskin, John, [23];
his scheme of political economy, [118]
Sentimental thinkers, [123]
Shakespeare, [92], [96]
Shaw, Bernard, [43], [208], [209];
Man and Superman, [215], [216], [222]
Slave, contrasted with wage-paid labourer, [59]
Slavery, [57]
Smith, Adam, Wealth of Nations, [25], [26], [36]
Social Democratic Federation, its campaign and its catechism, [45]
Social policy of the future, [278], [280], [282], [284], [286], [288], [290], [292], [294]
Socialism, Christian. See Christian socialism
—— historical beginning of, [1], et seq.;
two ideas of, [1];
and capitalism, [3];
a theory, [5];
regarded as a practical force, [8];
basic doctrine of so-called scientific, [18];
a fallacy, [49], [167];
proximate difficulties of, [69], [70], [72], [74], [76], [78], [80], [82], [84], [86], [88];
its ultimate difficulty, [89], [90], [92], [94], [96], [98], [100], [102], [104], [106],
[108], [110], [112], [114], [116], [118], [120], [122], [124], [126], [128];
"the Great Man theory," [91]
Socialistic attack on interest, and the nature of its error, [227], [228],
[230], [232], [234], [236], [238], [240], [242], [244], [246], [248], [250], [252]
Socialistic temperament, debilitates the faculties, [169]
—— theory of society, a, [56], [58]
Socialists, on heroism, [118], [122];
their two main doctrines, moral and economic, [165];
their false and true theories of production, [166];
their fallacy, [167]
—— evolutionary, [102]
Society, two contrasted groups of, [15]
Sociology, scientific, [111]
—— speculative, [109]
Spencer, Herbert, [106];
causal importance of the great man, [89] to [101];
on modern production, [97], [98];
Study of Sociology, [99];
on the invention of the Times printing-press, [100];
Social Statics, ibid.;
criticised by Author's Aristocracy and Evolution, [101]
State officials, [69]
Steel and oil, [153], [158], [159], [160], [162]
Supply and demand, [143]
Utopia, Bellamy's description of a socialistic, [92]
Value, surplus, [13]
Wage-capital, [36], [37], [39], [41], [57], [58], [264];
an implement of direction, [70];
its waste brings about its own remedy, [71]
Wagedom, socialists and, [59], [60]
Wage-fund, division of total, [201]
Wage-system, alternatives to, [57], [60];
an escape from, [59]
Watt, [221]
Wealth, socialists' conception of, [145];
a form of power, [146];
superfluous, [155];
produced by two functionally different classes, [176]
—— of modern nations, "common manual labour" impotent to produce the,
[48], [50], [54]
Wealth-producer, the greed of the, [125]
Wealth-producing power, labour's, [11], [21], [42]
Webb, Sidney, [43], [58] to [60], [89], [90], [119], [191], [194], [197];
his argument, [107], [108]
Wilshire, Gayford, his leaflet, [47], [143], [257]

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