Legislative Program of the Socialist Party, Vol. 1: Record of the Work of the Socialist Representatives in the State Legislatures of the United ... Party in Direct Legislation (Classic Reprint)
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Author(s)Ethelwyn Mills
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Excerpt from Legislative Program of the Socialist Party, Vol. 1: Record of the Work of the Socialist Representatives in the State Legislatures of the United States, 1899-1913: With Account of Efforts of the Party in Direct Legislation
There is nothing more vital to the socialist movement than its constructive program. To be able to point out in definite terms and in concrete measures the actual steps by which the goal of socialism may be reached is not only of great interest - it is an absolute necessity.
Wilhelm Liebknecht realized this when he wrote: "The important thing for us is not to paint a picture of the future - which in any case would be useless labor - but to forecast a practical program for the immediate period, to formulate and justify measures that shall serve as aids to the new socialist birth."
And if that were true in Germany many years ago, it is much more true in the American movement today.
Moreover, as the socialist ideas win acceptance among the people, and the party by its growth and success comes more and more into the control of official positions, this problem increases in importance. The capture of a single city, the election of a few representatives to a state legislature, brings the party face to face with the problem of reducing its theories to a constructive program, its propaganda proposals to the cold letter of the statutes. And thus, whether we will or no, we must grapple with the inevitable problem of how to inaugurate socialism, how to formulate the measures that will bring about the change we seek.
It is evident that this task will not be the work of a few months, or even years; that no single group of socialists will be able to work it out alone.
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There is nothing more vital to the socialist movement than its constructive program. To be able to point out in definite terms and in concrete measures the actual steps by which the goal of socialism may be reached is not only of great interest - it is an absolute necessity.
Wilhelm Liebknecht realized this when he wrote: "The important thing for us is not to paint a picture of the future - which in any case would be useless labor - but to forecast a practical program for the immediate period, to formulate and justify measures that shall serve as aids to the new socialist birth."
And if that were true in Germany many years ago, it is much more true in the American movement today.
Moreover, as the socialist ideas win acceptance among the people, and the party by its growth and success comes more and more into the control of official positions, this problem increases in importance. The capture of a single city, the election of a few representatives to a state legislature, brings the party face to face with the problem of reducing its theories to a constructive program, its propaganda proposals to the cold letter of the statutes. And thus, whether we will or no, we must grapple with the inevitable problem of how to inaugurate socialism, how to formulate the measures that will bring about the change we seek.
It is evident that this task will not be the work of a few months, or even years; that no single group of socialists will be able to work it out alone.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
