Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-11-28

questions LnaL mas given harl MARX
due credit for accuacy in the analysis
of society.
Several prominent sociologists have
practically advanced the MARKHAM
theories without acknowledging Marx
as their discoverer, or in any way re-
cognizing the value Of his contribu-
lions to social science.
In his aphoristic style which is SO
characteristic OF Professor Small he
says Of Marx:
Marx was one of the few really
great thinkers in the history of So
cial SCIENCE"
"Men in dignifled academic positions
still refrain in public from giving
Marx his due"
Accordingly he (Marx) was a con-
structive agent in the same sense in
which the engineers woh bored into
the floor of He'll Gate to prepare the
way for the dynamite and dredges."
Marks porgram was to deepen and
widen and straighten the channel"
In, other words, nobody since Mar
tin Luther has done as much as Karl
Marx to make the conventional mind
ed fear that our theories of life may
need a thorough overhauling. The
longer that overhauling is postponed
the greater will be the repute of Marx
after the crisis is passed and the
more fatuous will the interests appear
that are meanwhile depressing the in
evitable."
"The books and essays that have
been written to prove that Marx did
not say precisely, and that so far as
he cid say he was not correct, amount
to considerable library" y
Marx said in substance that there
is not private business on earth that
could exhibit Inconsistencies as glar.
ing as the industrial system of every
modern nation presents, without be-
ceiver. The only remarkable thing
about this opposition is that there are
still intelligent human beings of adult
age who have not discoveed that it is
a commonplace"
"He Marx fought CALAMITY for
neglected phases of truth"
1--WE do ourselves no credit in blam-
ing him Mark for not, seeing the
whole truth. We shall do well if we
see as far into the truth as he did,
and If while avoiding some of his
errors we add even little to his wis
DOM"
81 confidently predict that in the
ultimate judgment of History, Marx
will have a place in social science
analogous with that of Calico in ply
steal science"
s"He CMarx) is still voice in the
wilderness. but for one have no more
doubt that he was essentially right,
and that conventionality was essen
TALLY wrong, than have that Galilee
will hold his place to the end of time
as one Of the worlds great discover
ers."
Continuing, Professor Small says
about the class struggle, one of the
principal MARKHAM theories:
J, more crocodile tears have been,
shed over Marks recourse to class
conflict than over any other mooted,
conception in the whole field of social
science. It Is ,grieved and indignant
denial that such q thing as class con-
flicts exists in the world. We need
not stop to parley with this inanity."
:sMarxr was right, as a social tacti-
clan, In believing that the. class con-
sciousness Of Wage-earners must be
modified for life-and- death against the
impersonal force OF capital"
There is an irrepressible conflict
in modern society between the presup-
positions of capital and the paramount
value Of humanity"
1.-The only people who are generally
understood or respected today are
those who think they have rights AND
accordingly fight for them"
"The classes that have fought their
way into the security of our property
system show themselves either hypo-
critical or stupid when they blame the
backward classes for declaring war for
the same kind Of conqeust."
tBoth ingenious and disingenuous
men have decried Marx as a fomenter
of class struggle, and they have tried
to distract attention from irrepressi-
BILE issues between pesent classes by
exposing the wickedness Of stirring
I'D Of Industrial strife"
"Our most influential classes are
making a mistake today precisely
parallel with the mistake of the cor
responding classes during the decade
previous to the Civil War;
"The fact Of class struggle is as
automatic today as the fact OF grav1-
tation.
In regard to Socialism and Social
lists, Professor Small has the following
to say:
Roughly speaking, the ability of the
majority to voice its feelings has