The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-06-21
THE SOCIALIST DOC
TRINE rs SET OUT
AS FOLLOWS:


the Kansas seat Of Socialism that in
event of statehood that the socialists Of
New Mexico expected to put full tick.
ct in the field and carry il, directs at.
tention anew TO this form Of political
heresy which claims 80 much and which
is 40 carefully sidestepped by conserva.
tive people Of all parties.
And yet not one persons In twenty
knows what socialism really in. for il is
"a word having two distinct but related
meanings; primarily it is used as the
aame of certain philosophy Of history
and method OF interpreting and analyz.
ing social phenomena. In the second
place, since this philosophy and method
have AZ one of their principal conclu.
sions that society is evolving toward
a cooperative social stage the word is
used to designate cooperative social
organization where the means for the
production and distribution of wealth
are the collective property of the work
ing class, while the goods which are TO
be consumed become the private proper.
ty Of the individual workers. The phil
osopher Of socialism, as generally NE.
cepted by The socialist parties OF the
world at the presnt time, takes as ITS
fundamental hypothesis what has been
variously called, the materialistic inter
probation of history, historic material.
ism, OF economic determinism. This
doctrine is tated as follows in the (Com.
munist Manifest):
''In every historic epoch the prevail
ing mode Of economic production and
exchange, and the social organization
necessarily following from it, form the
basis upon which is built up, and from
which alone can be explained, the politi-
cal and intellectual history of that
epoch and consequently the whole his
tory of mankind since the dissolution Of
primitive tribal society, holding land
in common ownership, has been a his
tory of class struggles, contests between
exploiting and exploited, ruling and OPP
pressed classes; the history of these
class struggles forms series Of evo.
luton; now-a days, stage has been
reached where the exploited and op.
pressed class-the proletariat--cannot
gain its emancipation from the sway
of the exploiting and ruling class-the
bourgeoisie at large from all exploita.
ftnn onnraaQinu alaoa Itat Ia aNs
class struggles.
II is maintained that the form in
which production is carried on in any
society constitutes the fundamental fact
which determine all other social insti-
tutions. This does not hold that each
economic era begins tabula rasa in the
stage inherits its institutions from the
previous stage and IL can only influence,
change and reconstruct these or es.
tablish new ones alongside of them.
These inherited characteristics include
customs, laws, ethical standards, public
opinion, and in short the whole set of
institutions and social psychology which
has been built up throughout the course
of human evolution. The analogy be-
tween heredity and environment in
biology and in the social organism is
here very colse. Since the appearance
Of the institution Of private property in
the instruments by which wealth IN
produced and distributed, society has
necessarily been divided into two classes
according as their members own or do
not own these essentials for the produc-
tion Of wealth. The struggle Of these
classes for power constitutes large
portion Of the history OF modern times.
In the middle ages, land being the most