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SOCIALISM EXPLAINED.

A SCIENTIFIC STATEMENT OF THE SUBJECT.

Socialism
and Society

By J. Ramsay Macdonald, M.P.


CONTENTS.

The Problem—Society and the Individual—The Economic Period—
Utopian and Semi-Scientific Socialism—Towards Socialism—
Socialism and the Political Organ.


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"This admirable little work."

"Daily Chronicle" says:—
"Well written, logical, and readable, and we commend it to the study of all social reformers."

"Bristol Daily Mercury" says:—
"It would be difficult to name a work which explains so concisely, clearly, and forcibly the inspiring ideas of the Socialist Movement, or gives a better popular exposition of the Socialist aims and policy."

"Huddersfield Worker" says:—
"The logical process of the book is very convincing. "Socialism and Society" is no put up-job, but a strenuous sustained effort by the best intellect in the Parliamentary Labour Party to give a thoroughly deductive statement of a policy which, on purely practical grounds, carries with it its own recommendation."

"Scottish Co-operator" says:—
"Mr. Macdonald is able to show the falseness of both the Individualist and the Marxist position. He, however, is not content with destructive criticism: he gives a luminous exposition of Socialist theory."

"Reynolds' Weekly Paper" says:—
"Society is no longer regarded as an architectural constriction of fixed parts, but as an organism maturing by the laws of variation and growth. . . . . Mr. Macdonald's book is strongly recommended."

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