The Co-Operative Commonwealth: An Exposition of Socialism (Classic Reprint)

A ny one who, like myself, has been watching the intellectual movement among Americans during the last dozen years, must be impressed with the way in which socialism, or nationalism, as it has been lately called, has spread among them. I may say that I know that the present work, in the shape in which it first appeared in 1884, has contributed its share to that effect; it has sown the seeds of socialism in all parts of our country, and there is sufficient evidence to show that some of them have germinated. I suppose this is due to the feature, which is peculiar to The Co-operative Commonwealth, that it gives, as well as can at present be done, the constructive side of socialism, that it attempts to present the new social system in outline. As far back as A ugust, 1880, when I could count all native American socialists on the fingers of one hand, there appeared a remarkable dialogue in the Nineteenth Century, entitled Political Optimism, mwhich occurred the following paragraph :W esee that political systems in all progressive societies tend towards socialistic democracy. We see everywhere that it must come to that. We all of us feel this conviction, or all of us, I suppose, who have reflected on the matter.
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