Socialism: Positive and Negative

Socialism: Positive and Negative is a study by Robert Rives La Monte. It delves into the roots, causes, needs and applications of Socialism on the grander scale. Excerpt: «Thanks to modern science—the child of the machine process—the universality of the law of cause and effect is now assumed on all hands. In Labriola's strong words, „Nothing happens by chance.“ The Marxist believes this in all its fulness. To him systems of religion, codes of ethics and schools of art are, in the last analysis, just as much products of material causes as are boots or sausages. There are some intellectual Socialists whose mode of... Weiter