Gunnison news-champion., 1909-04-16
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pssnsns esils Il socsssy. WA,Is IL
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o~eisn, it y ssroaG in its Aesssci-
ssioa Of many VI ths tsschinSs Of
comnanists such As the perform
ssce Of d.sAgrsssble work BY slaves,
the property rights in tie wife by
the husband, state control Of mar
rsAges. OF births and Of cLAdreB, Of
trss love, Of celibacy. Of the abrosa-
tion Of all private property. the vest
ing Of all wealth In the community,
etc. etc. though these and other
equally preposterous teachings are
often and systematically charged to
socialism by its enemies.
Thousands of pages Of socialist
literature may be turned without
disclosing any Of the names of the
communists, while every socialist is
more or less familiar with the writ
ings of Marx, Engels and Morgan,
the combined thought of whom, with
others, produced the socialist doe
trlnes Of today. They it was who
elaborated the system OF thought
and mode OF investigation commonly
called Economic Determinism or Ma
terlallstic Conception of History,
law, the application of which to the
history OF the race makes the read
ing of the races future, as determln-
ed by past and Occurring events, as
an open page. | pon deductions
thus gained socialists base the asscr-
ton that socialism is inevitable and
the next advance step in civilization,
it being in the line of the least re-
sistance. Socialism emphaticallv
declares for private property and its
chief object is to make it possible
for every individual to privately
possess property to the full extent of
his labor product, less cost OF oper-
ating machinery etc, all Of which
cost is at present borne by the work
ere indirectly while they receive but
a small portion in wages of their
labor product. No property is to
be collectively owned save that
which is and must be collectively
operated and upon which. the workers
must depend as means of applying
their labor. their only means of life.
1t 10 the denial of this privilege to-
gsthsr with the extraction from the
woskess Of surplus value, and not
the 'coagested condition of the pop
slation" Of England or any other
country that causes the poverty and
unepeakable misery Of the poor.
Man is the only animal given the
power to produce moro than he is
able to consume and given an op-
portsnity to apply his labor to land
machinery etc, he will feed and
cloth himself. Not until the large
costly machine came, iavolstionizinQ
productions making it collective in
instesd Of individual, wers there able
bodied pa~pers and an army of un-
employed. Tho trouble is not in
the machine but in the private own
ership u it which of necessity d e.
nies every person a job unless he
first guarantees . profit to the owner
Socialism is not communism:
Communists may or may not lie
socialists.
1t is true that socialism has pro-
gressed but slowly among the poor
of England as it does among all
people of extreme poverty. Pro-
longod destitution and illiterary or
mental incapacitv are inseparable
and such people 60 with the stand
patters," nearly always. About the
only exception to the rule is an oc-
caaional senseless unreasoning up
heaval of the oppressed masses in
bloody revolution which avails them