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target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_eb754691-4675-59a1-8363-4a9e263ec8ab">[111] Hyndman in Debate, Will Socialism Benefit the English People? p. 5.
[112] Leatham, The Class War, p. 4.
[113] Socialism, For and Against, p. 6.
[114] Snowden, Socialists' Budget, p. 11.
[115] Debs, Industrial Unionism, p. 5.
[116] Kautsky, Class Struggle, p. 10.
[117] Hall, The Old and New Unionism, p. 4.
[118] Lister, Riches and Poverty, pp. 13, 14.
[119] Bax and Quelch, A New Catechism of Socialism, p. 7.
[120] Poems for Socialists, p. 8.
[121] Social-Democratic Federation Song Book, p. 25.
[122] Washington, A Corner in Flesh and Blood, p. 14.
[123] Ibid.
[124] Benson, Socialism, p. 5.
[125] Washington, Nation of Slaves, p. 11.
[126] Davidson, The Old Order and the New, p. 30.
[127] Some Objections to Socialism, p. 7.
[128] Davidson, The Old Order and the New, p. 45.
[129] Morris, Useful Work and Useless Toil, p. 30.
[130] Some Objections to Socialism, p. 20.
[131] Keir Hardie, From Serfdom to Socialism, p. 52.
[132] Hall, The Old and New Unionism, p. 5.
[133] Macdonald, Socialism, p. 6.
[134] The Socialist Annual, 1907, p. 16 f.
[135] Facts for Socialists, p. 5.
[136] Facts for Socialists, pp. 6, 7.
[137] Ibid. p. 7.
[138] Ibid. p. 8.
[139] Facts for Socialists, pp. 8, 9.
[140] See Daily News, November 28, 1907.
[141] Facts for Socialists, p. 7.
[142] See Mr. Quail's paper in the Contemporary Review for August 1907.
[143] Ward, The Ideal City, pp. 5, 6.
[144] Keir Hardie, From Serfdom to Socialism, p. 15.
[145] Quelch, Social-Democratic Federation, p. 5.
[146] Manifesto of the Socialist Party of Great Britain, p. 8.
[147] Sidney Webb, The Difficulties of Individualism, p. 8.
[148] Keir Hardie, Can a Man be a Christian on a Pound a Week? p. 7.
[149] Joynes, The Socialist Catechism, p. 2.
[150] Hazell, Summary of Marx's "Capital," p. 9.
CHAPTER IVToC
THE FUNDAMENTAL DOCTRINES OF SOCIALISM
In describing the doctrines of Socialism I do not mean to state in detail the whole of the Socialistic theories. Such a statement would fill a volume, it would be excessively tedious to most readers, and it is for all practical purposes quite unnecessary. A statement of the leading doctrines on which the activity of the Socialists is based—the doctrines which are constantly asserted and which are the fundamental dogmas of the Socialist faith—will enable us to obtain a clear view of the foundations upon which the theoretic fabric of Socialism is built, and to judge whether that foundation is scientific and sound, or unscientific and unsound.
The basic doctrine of Socialism, upon which the great edifice of Socialistic theory has been reared, may be summed up in the phrase
"Labour is the only Source of Wealth"
Therefore we read in the celebrated pamphlet "Facts for Socialists," of which some important extracts were given in the preceding chapter: "Commodities are produced solely by the 'efforts and sacrifices' (Cairns), whether of muscle or of brain, of the working portion of the community, employed upon the gifts of Nature. Adam Smith 'showed that labour is the only