III. THE YOUNG HEGELIANS IV. JOURNALISM-POLITICS - SOCIALISM V. THE BIRTH-CRY OF MODERN SOCIALISM CROWING OF THE GALLICAN COCK . VII. 255 ✔ XI. THE INTERNATIONAL WORKING MEN'S ASSOCIATION • 355 PREFACE Professor Veblen, one of the ablest and most brilliant of our American sociologists, has very well said: The Socialism that inspires hopes and fears to-day is of the school of Marx. No one is seriously apprehensive of any other so-called Socialistic movement, and no one is seriously concerned to criticise or refute the doctrines set forth by any other school of 'Socialists.' It will, I think, be conceded that this is a remarkable tribute to the influence and power of a great thinker. It is not a small thing that an international political movement with many millions of adherents should be dominated so far by the intellect of one man as commonly to be called by his name; for "Socialism" and "Marxism" have become interchangeable as practically synonymous terms. In the great European countries where Socialism is a power politically, the movement is almost wholly dominated and inspired by the thought and deed of Marx. In the United States, where there is a growing Socialist movement which is generally recognized as being much bigger and stronger than its political manifestation, Socialism and Marxism are synonyms. In China and Japan the works of Marx are eagerly read and studied by those who challenge the existing order and who dream of change. In Australia Marxian shibboleths are inscribed upon the red banners of a discontented proletariat. In Africa there are Karl Marx clubs, from which emanates the spirit of revolution. In view of these facts, one need not be a Socialist in order to feel an interest in the man whose work and personality have contributed so much to the development of modern political and social thought and history. Whether Socialism proves to be, in the long span of centuries, good or evil, a blessing to men |