[110] _Statistics and Economics_, by Richmond Mayo-Smith, Book III, Distribution. [111] _Statistics and Economics_, by Richmond Mayo-Smith, Book III, Distribution. [112] Cf. _Riches and Poverty_, by Chiozza Money, M.P.; also, _Fabian Tract_, No. 5. [113] _The Present Distribution of Wealth in the United States_, by Charles B. Spahr (1896). [114] _Writings and Speeches of John J. Ingalls_, page 320. [115] _Studies in the Evolution of Industrial Society_, page 265. CHAPTER VI THE CLASS STRUGGLE THEORY I No part of the theory of modern Socialism has called forth so much criticism and opposition as the doctrine of the class struggle. Many who are otherwise sympathetic to Socialism denounce this doctrine as narrow, brutal, and productive of antisocialistic feelings of class hatred. Upon all hands the doctrine is condemned as an un-American appeal to passion and a wicked exaggeration of social conditions. When President Roosevelt attacks the preachers of the doctrine, and wrathfully condemns class-consciousness as "a foul thing," he doubtless expresses the views of a majority of American citizens. The insistence of Socialists upon this aspect of their propaganda is undoubtedly responsible for keeping a great many outside of their movement who otherwise would be identified with it. If the Socialists would repudiate the doctrine that Socialism is a class movement, and make their appeal to the intelligence and conscience of all classes, instead of to the interests of a special class, they could probably double their numerical strength at once. To many, therefore, it seems a fatuous and quixotic policy to preach such a doctrine, and it is very often charitably ascribed to the peculiar intellectual and moral myopia of fanaticism.