W. H. M.

_January, 1908._




CONTENTS


CHAPTER I

THE HISTORICAL BEGINNING OF SOCIALISM AS AN OSTENSIBLY
SCIENTIFIC THEORY

Socialism an unrealised theory. In order to discuss it, it must
be defined.

Being of no general interest except as a nucleus of some general
movement, we must identify it as a theory which has united large
numbers of men in a common demand for change.

As the definite theoretical nucleus of a party or movement,
socialism dates from the middle of the nineteenth century, when
it was erected into a formal system by Karl Marx.

We must begin our examination of it by taking it in this, its
earliest, systematic form.