the records of the most conspicuous Anarchist, Nihilist, and
Revolutionary crimes. Details regarding the deeds of Orsini and
Louise Michel, Jack Cade and Wat Tyler, the execution of Louis XVI.
and Marie Antoinette, the assassination of Presidents Lincoln,
McKinley, and Carnot, the attempt on King Alfonso, and other facts
are there recorded--"for the working class to remember." Earlier or
later the Socialist-Communist-Anarchist agitation in Great Britain
may, and very likely will, lead to Anarchist outrages.
FOOTNOTES:
[1073] Prince Kropotkin, _Anarchism_, p. 16.
[1074] B. Shaw, _The Impossibilities of Anarchism_, p. 24.
[1075] Davidson, _The Democrat's Address_, p. 15.
[1076] Bax, _Paris Commune_, p. 35.
[1077] Bax, _Essays in Socialism_, pp. 98, 99.
[1078] Davidson, _Christ, State, and Commune_, pp. 16, 17.
[1079] _Ibid._ p. 6.
[1080] Blatchford, _God and My Neighbour_, p. 195.
[1081] Thompson, _That Blessed Word Liberty_, p. 13.
[1082] Davidson, _The Old Order and the New_, p. 172.
[1083] Kropotkin, _Anarchism_, p. 8.
[1084] Brockhaus, _Konversations Lexikon_, vol. i. p. 578.
[1085] Shaw, _The Impossibilities of Anarchism_, p. 26.
[1086] _Freedom_, November 1907.
[1087] _Freedom_, November 1907.
[1088] Davidson, _Christ, State, and Commune_, p. 22.
[1089] _Ibid._ p. 31.
[1090] Kropotkin, _Anarchism_, p. 19.
[1091] Kropotkin, _The Wage System_, p. 15.
[1092] See Leatham, _Lives of the Chicago Martyrs_.
[1093] _Social-Democratic Federation Song Book_, p. 35.
[1094] Bliss, _Encyclopedia of Social Reform_, p. 63.
[1095] Bax and Quelch, _A New Catechism of Socialism_, p. 31.
[1096] Bax, _A Short History of the Paris Commune_, p. 78.
[1097] _Independent Labour Party Song Book_, p. 33.
CHAPTER XXXI
SOCIALISM AND REVOLUTION
The "Socialist Catechism" contains the following passage: "Q. How are
forms of government changed so as to readjust them to the economical
changes in the forms of production which have been silently evolving
in the body of society? A. By means of revolution.--Q. Give an
instance of this? A. The French Revolution of 1789."[1098]
Many British Socialists are revolutionaries. They hope to introduce
Socialism into Great Britain by revolutionary means. They have studied
the French revolutions, and have become pupils of the French
revolutionary leaders. "Socialism is essentially revolutionary,
politically and economically, as it aims at
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