Socialists do not feel that the agricultural problem will be solved at all for a large part of the agriculturists (the laborers) nor in the most satisfactory manner for the majority (self-employing farmers) until the whole problem of capitalism is solved. The agricultural laborers they claim as their own to-day; the conditions I have reviewed lead them to hope also for a slow but steady progress among the smaller farmers.
FOOTNOTES:
[223] Karl Kautsky, "Parlamentarismus und Demokratie," edition of 1911, p. 127.
[224] Karl Kautsky, "Parlamentarismus und Demokratie," edition of 1911, pp. 126-128.
[225] Quotations from Kautsky following in this chapter are taken chiefly from his "Agrarfrage."
[226] Émile Vandervelde, "Le Socialisme Agraire."
[227] Die Neue Zeit, June 16, 1911.
[228] Proceedings of 1910 Convention of the Socialist Party of the United States.
[229] Die Neue Zeit, June 16 and 30, 1911.
[230] A. M. Simons, "The American Farmer," pp. 160-162.