Socialism stands condemned, not so much by the criticism of its
opponents as by the doctrines and proposals of its leaders, and these
are the men who aspire to rule the universe and who claim: "We mean
the establishment of a political power in place of the present
class-State, which shall have for its conscious and definite aim the
common ownership and control of the _whole_ of the world's industry,
exchange, &c."[1273]

I think the readers of the foregoing pages will be inclined to believe
that Socialism is methodised insanity.

FOOTNOTES:

[1203] Kautsky, _Social Revolution_, p. 41.

[1204] Socialism, _For and Against_, p. 7.

[1205] Clemenceau, in Jaures' _Practical Socialism_, p. 11.

[1206] Snowden, _The Individual under Socialism_, p. 12.

[1207] Kautsky, _The Social Revolution_, p. 42.

[1208] Blatchford, _Real Socialism_, p. 5.

[1209] Macdonald, _Socialism and Society_, p. 126.

[1210] Ethel Snowden, _The Woman Socialist_, p. 7.

[1211] Ford, _Woman and Socialism_, p. 2.

[1212] Macdonald, _Socialism and Society_, pp. 122, 123.

[1213] Sir Oliver Lodge, _Public Service_ v. _Private Expenditure_, p.
11.

[1214] Blatchford, _Not Guilty_, p. 37.

[1215] _Ibid._ p. 251.

[1216] See _ante_, Chapter XXIII.

[1217] Herbert Spencer, _The Man versus the State_, p. 43.

[1218] Snowden, _The Individual under Socialism_, p. 9.

[1219] Ben Tillett, _Trades Unionism and Socialism_, p. 14.

[1220] Bax and Quelch, _A New Catechism_, p. 30.

[1221] Kautsky, _The Social Revolution_, p. 43.

[1222] Joynes, _The Socialist Catechism_, p. 14.

[1223] Snowden, _The Individual under Socialism_, p. 11.

[1224] _Ibid._ p. 18.

[1225] Ward, _Religion and Labour_, pp. 7, 8.

[1226] Gronlund, _Co-operative Commonwealth_, p. 77.

[1227] Kautsky, _The Social Republic_, p. 32.

[1228] Hazell, _Summary Marx's Capital_, p. 6.

[1229] Bebel, _Woman in the Past, Present, and the Future_, p. 193.

[1230] Sir Oliver Lodge, _Public Service versus Private Expenditure_,
p. 10.

[1231] _New Age_, November 21, 1907.

[1232] See _ante_, p. 61 ff.

[1233] Bax, _Outlooks from the New Standpoint_, p. 81.

[1234] _Fabian Essays in Socialism_, pp. 163, 164.

[1235] Leatham, _Socialism and Character_, p. 91.

[1236] Davidson, _The Old Order and the New_, p. 170.

[1237] Morris, _Communism_, pp. 14, 15.

[1238] _Independent Labour Party Song Book_, p. 40.

[1239] _Forward_, October 12, 1907.

[1240] Bebel,