New-York tribune., 1912-01-28
The Family and Religion, as ln'
sti.utions, Become Obsolete
Where Socialism Prevails.

economic regime, scratch socialist ana
you find an anarchist.
"l.ree love" concede AT once thst iree
love Is not a proper Ingredient OF soc'"'-
ism though most socialists imagine u 70
no for the simple reason that az ''i'
stage of the game most soclaists a'o
anarchists One OF the funny things aoou'
socialism in it's present concrete mann
festation is that II is not socialism MOS.
Of its adherents---at least the rank anu
file Il am not so sure about the leaners'-
a,o socialists because they are extreme
individualists They really want TO escape
tho woke of law, the burden or Obedience
the straight and narrow path that IL 80
sharnlv diffentiated from the primross
broad way II is not bread ana outter
,hev are painting for, but AUTOMOBILES ana
champagne 1t is not that they are thirst-
ing merely for II strict equality IN tne
distribution of the worlds goods. but they
are hungry for the largesses or luxury
Take away the Utopian vision or nfe
of ease and bounty from the average So
| cialist and his enthusiasm will collapse
like punctured bladder.
Although free love is a present element
In the psychology OF tho movement IL ~
! not its logical goal. Not free love wouio
| be the logical sex relation under the So
| cialist regime, but strict state supervision
| of the propagation of the race by the most
spproved methods of stock breeding. Ber-
nard Shaw IS already an ardent sdvocats
| of these methods. and il. q. Wells Is rap
] idlv drawing abreast with him. the oP-
! portunists of the movement look askancs
J at the brilliant bluntness OF these un-
| leashed propOunders OF the socian"t
| scheme and while secretly admitting the
! logic Of their advocacy Of the stock preed-
ing method they deplore the publicity OF
this propaganda And so forth. TINS
is a really harmless ingredient; 1t may Do
merely water. like some OF the STOCK
which capitalists sometimes issue. to the IN
| tense indignation of socialists and OF others.
AS IL simply serves to make bulk ana
not quality, It may be ignored without en-
dangering the Constitution OF the United
States.
WHEN MAN BEGINS TO LIVE.
OF the SNOWY paraphernalia" Of tha
present economic superstructure haVe
so far touched upon two only-the famiiy
and religion These in the purview OK
socialism are only such stuff as dreams
are made on, and when the cloud capped
towers and palaces Of the SOCIALIST MIL
lennium shall rise in majestic array these
hideous vanities Of bourgeoise genesis
will vanish into thin air and leave not
wrack behind, and. as Mr.. Mcmahon SEN
tentiously remarks, man will then oegin
to live
There are other superstructural ephom-
/ era. such as law, ethics. art and pohucs,
enumerated in Mr.. McMahon's pithy ana
Rhadamanthine sentence OF DOOM upon
which we might hang a tale and point
moral: but cut bono? If the family ana
religion stand no ghost Of chance under
the deadly simeon OF socialism. why nm
GER over the analogous agony OF these
other perishing paraphernalia OF the bour-
reoise world? With puritanical stoicism
cast them resolutely upon the funeral
nvre as savonarola heaped the vanities
of the Medcean DANES upon the bonfires
! or Florence.
Time runs apace and space is limited
commodity There are many interesting
noints I'm AIr McMahons article. sugges-
tive and fundamental. There are just
three which l would like to touch upon
very briefly. Each would make book
and. alas. | can only salaarn to them for
cialist indictment Of present conditions,
the theory of surplus value and the ethics
OF socialism in the face of the capitalistic
regime I will take the last first.
Mr. Mcmahon. in response 10 his own
question whether socialists are bound to OBJ
serve the laws and ethics Of to-day an
swers yes These laws and ethics are
; valid for the present II not for the future.
| Mr Mcmahon is not here in agreement with
all his fellow socialists. William u. Hay.
wood. who has recently been elected to the
national executive committee Of the social
ist party. emphatically answers No In
: brochure written within the last year. be
; licve aud shortly prior to Mr.. Haywoods
election 10 the national executive commit
tee. he declared that the workman who
thoroughly understood and accepted tho
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