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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DISCUSSIONS. There is assuredly no use in what Mr. and Mrs. Bosanquet call the wretched war of catchwords and party shibboleths like Socialism and Individualism, and I hope, in attempting to supplement their contribution, that I shall avoid such controversy. Mr. Ball has given reasons for thinking that Mr. and Mrs. Bosanquet take an unduly low view of the Socialist movement. To this it is replied that Mr. Ball, for whose ideals and purpose Mr. Bosanquet has the highest respect, does not properly represent Socialism, and certain writings of my own are brought in, apparently as an awful example of the penny pamphlets which go out . . . among the working-classes. Now, Mr. Bosanquet and I suffer from an apparently incurable incapacity to agree on any one point, and I hope he will forgive me if I leave his personal references undebated. Nor can I, in a few pages, enter into an elaborate defence of Mr. Ball's presentation of the Socialist position. What I am concerned with are certain side issues of the discussion. i. Mr. Ball urges that there has been a remarkable process of evolution in Socialist doctrine; that the best thought and best expression of the Socialist movement have left behind the cruder conceptions of human life and social organization on which unfriendly critics still harp; and that, as regards personal character and the family in particular, it is scarcely fair to represent the Socialism of to-day as repugnant to the lessons of the best social experience. Mr. and Mrs. Bosanquet's reply hints that Mr. Ball's views may be all very fine, but that they have no relation to the body of popular literature which is disseminated . . . among the wage-earning classes, by which, I gather, they mean specially the Fabian Tracts. Now, it so happens that immediat...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217474153 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217474152 |
| Weight | 1.20 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.83 In |
| List Price | $28.76 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 372 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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