The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-06-21

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ership cam u he individual unless all
the evils Of the present system are re
tanned. Hence, we have Il demand for
collective ownership.
Thus socialism as a philosophy H.
mainly an analysis of capitalism. A.
an ideal. as n social stage, it presup
poses the capitalist system, since that
can alone prepare the way for social
ism. This future system, or ideal, is in
no sense of the word IA scheme whose
adoption IN asked for by the socialists.
u is simply the next logical stage IN
social evolution. Socialists do not at.
tempt therefore To give any details of
that future society since all such de.
tails will be dependent upon the decis
ion OF a majority of the working class
of that future time, and upon the stage
of industrial development which has
been attained when socialism is ushercd
in. Since both of these factors are man.
ifestly impossible of being known ut
the present time. any attempt to fore.
cast their outcome would be equally i'm.
possible. All that can he said In that
present tendencies of social develop.
nlent that what must be a few of the
general features Of the next social
stage.
Socialists maintain that the coming
society will be preferable to the pres.
ent one, especially for the working
class. With a collective democratically
managed organization of industry, in
which natural resources and the me.
chanical means for the production and
distribution of wealth have their own.
ership vested in society, and where pro.
duction 10 for the direct use of the pro.
ducers and not for sale, the wastes of
the present system will be largely abol
ished. Among these wastes which will
be abolished are advertising. duplica
tion of plants and powers, poor utiliza
ton OF mechanical progress, d~isadvant
ageous geographical location OF indus
tries, etc. Some of these ARE already
being abolished by the trust method of
production. But at the present time
the saving accomplished rebounds al
most wholly to the benefit of the few
owners of the trustifed industry. In
addition to this socialists maintain tina,
much greater savings would be made
under socialism by the utilization In
productive labor Of the energies OF
whole classes Of the population from
whose strength aud ability society, at
present, deserves little or no advant.
age. This would be true, for example.
not alone Of the present army of the
unemployed amounting in the United
States to between one and three million,
according TO industrial conditions, but
also the purely capitalist class whose
function of ownership being performed
collectively would enable the members
Of that class to directly assist in pro
duction. by far the larger share Of that
portion of the population concerned in
the protection of individual property
rights in what socialism would make
collective property, such ms lawyers,
judges, police, private watchmen, de
tectives, and the army and navy, would
also be capable Of utiliztiOn in the pro.
duction of material wealth.
Socialists also claim that ia a co. oper
alive society the sum total of. human
happiness would Intensely increased by
making the production of goods in
itself pleasurable. When profit and
the competitive struggle are abolished
and productive energies fully utilized
there will be a possibility of that lei
surely artistic creative activity which
modern psychology and pedagogy agree
is capable of furnishing the most in
tense pleasure and valuable educational
training to the individual worker while,
Mt the same time, producing the best
possible goods for the satisfaction of
human needs. II il this phase of soc
ialism which has always attracted ar
lists and has given rise to the now ex.
~tensive arts and crafts movement. II
is easy to see in this connection that
socialism would offer Il much create,
field for the development Ut lndi lid
uality than is possible for tue pioat
mass Of the people today.
The theory of socialism is itself a
product of evolution, the ideal appear.
ing long before the philosophy of so.
ciety and the scientific analysis of so
cial relations which make possible the