[260] _English Progress towards Social-Democracy_, p. 14. [261] _Ibid._ p. 13. [262] Keir Hardie, _From Serfdom to Socialism_, p. 15. [263] Macdonald, _Socialism_, p. 3. [264] McClure, _Socialism_, p. 13. [265] Kautsky, _The Class Struggle_, p. 24. [266] Kautsky, _The Socialist Republic_, p. 21. [267] Hyndman, _Historic Basis of Socialism_, p. 435. [268] _Justice_, October 12, 1907. [269] _Justice_, October 12, 1907. [270] _The Social Democrat_, November 1907, p. 676. [271] _Report on Fabian Policy_, 1896, p. 6. [272] G.B. Shaw, quoted in Jackson, _Bernard Shaw_, p. 100. [273] Proudhon, _What is Property?_ pp. 252-256. [274] _Ibid._ p. 37. [275] _Ibid._ p. 184. [276] Snowden, _The Christ that is to be_, p. 6. [277] Bax and Quelch, _A New Catechism of Socialism_, p. 32. [278] Blatchford, _What is this Socialism?_ p. 11. CHAPTER V THE AIMS AND POLICY OF THE SOCIALISTS Those people who formerly called themselves Communists now call themselves Socialists. Marx and Engels wrote in their celebrated "Manifesto": "The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property."[279] The policy of modern British Socialism may be summed up in the identical words. Indeed, we are told by one of its most eager champions that "The programme of Socialism consists essentially of one demand--that the land and other instruments of production shall be the common property of the people, and shall be used and governed by the people for the people."[280] "We suggest that the nation should own all the ships, all the railways, all the factories, all the buildings, all the land, and all the requisites of national life and defence."[281] According to the Socialist doctrines which have been given in Chapter IV, private property is the enemy of the workers. Therefore they quite logically demand that all private property must be abolished. "The problem has to be faced. Either we must submit for ever to hand over at least one-third of our annual product to those who do us the favour to own our country without the obligation of rendering any service to the community, and to see this tribute augment with every advance in our industry and numbers, or else we must take steps, as considerately as may be possible, to put an end to this state of things."[282] "The modern form of private property is simply a legal claim to take a share of the produce of the national industry year by year without working for it. Socialism involves discontinuance of the payment of these incomes and addition of the wealth so saved to incomes derived from labour. The economic problem of Socialism is thus solved."[283]