A Critical Examination of SocialismMallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)
Philosophy
A Critical Examination of Socialism
Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)
Communism; Socialism
Reward of labour, as estimated by its actual products, just, 176, 178,
180, 182, 184, 186, 188, 190, 192, 194, 196, 198, 200, 202
Ricardo, 2, 12, 32, 92
Roosevelt, President, 169
Rossi, Govanni, the Italian socialist, his failure to found a
socialistic colony in Brazil, 141
Rousseau, his theory of the social contract, 283, 284
Ruskin, John, 23;
his scheme of political economy, 118
Sentimental thinkers, 123
Shakespeare, 92, 96
Shaw, Bernard, 43, 208, 209;
_Man and Superman_, 215, 216, 222
Slave, contrasted with wage-paid labourer, 59
Slavery, 57
Smith, Adam, _Wealth of Nations_, 25, 26, 36
Social Democratic Federation, its campaign and its catechism, 45
Social policy of the future, 278, 280, 282, 284, 286, 288, 290, 292, 294
Socialism, Christian. _See_ Christian socialism
---- historical beginning of, 1, _et seq._;
two ideas of, 1;
and capitalism, 3;
a theory, 5;
regarded as a practical force, 8;
basic doctrine of so-called scientific, 18;
a fallacy, 49, 167;
proximate difficulties of, 69, 70, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88;
its ultimate difficulty, 89, 90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 100, 102, 104, 106,
108, 110, 112, 114, 116, 118, 120, 122, 124, 126, 128;
"the Great Man theory," 91
Socialistic attack on interest, and the nature of its error, 227, 228,
230, 232, 234, 236, 238, 240, 242, 244, 246, 248, 250, 252
Socialistic temperament, debilitates the faculties, 169
---- theory of society, a, 56, 58
Socialists, on heroism, 118, 122;
their two main doctrines, moral and economic, 165;
their false and true theories of production, 166;
their fallacy, 167
---- evolutionary, 102
Society, two contrasted groups of, 15
Sociology, scientific, 111
---- speculative, 109
Spencer, Herbert, 106;
causal importance of the great man, 89-101;
on modern production, 97, 98;
_Study of Sociology_, 99;
on the invention of the _Times_ printing-press, 100;
_Social Statics_, _ibid._;
criticised by Author's _Aristocracy and Evolution_, 101
State officials, 69
Steel and oil, 153, 158, 159, 160, 162
Supply and demand, 143
Utopia, Bellamy's description of a socialistic, 92
Value, surplus, 13
Wage-capital, 36, 37, 39, 41, 57, 58, 264;
an implement of direction, 70;
its waste brings about its own remedy, 71
Wagedom, socialists and, 59, 60
Wage-fund, division of total, 201
Wage-system, alternatives to, 57, 60;
an escape from, 59
Watt, 221
Wealth, socialists' conception of, 145;
a form of power, 146;
superfluous, 155;
produced by two functionally different classes, 176
---- of modern nations, "common manual labour" impotent to produce the,
48, 50, 54
Wealth-producer, the greed of the, 125
Wealth-producing power, labour's, 11, 21, 42
Webb, Sidney, 43, 58-60, 89, 90, 119, 191, 194, 197;
his argument, 107, 108
Wilshire, Gayford, his leaflet, 47, 143, 257
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