How, then, are the people's eyes to be opened? By the force evolved
from the final triumph and consequent corruption of Commercial
Whiggery, which force will include in it a recognition of its
constructive activity by intelligent people on the one hand, and on
the other half-blind instinctive struggles to use its destructive
activity on the part of those who suffer and have not been allowed to
think; and, to boot, a great deal that goes between those two
extremes.

In this turmoil, all those who can be truly called Socialists will be
involved. The modern development of the great class-struggle has
forced us to think, our thoughts force us to speak, and our hopes
force us to try to get a hearing from the people. Nor can one tell
how far our words will carry, so to say. The most moderate
exposition of our principles will bear with it the seeds of
disruption; nor can we tell what form that disruption will take.

One and all, then, we are responsible for the enunciation of
Socialist principles and of the consequences which may flow from
their general acceptance, whatever that may be. This responsibility
no Socialist can shake off by declarations against physical force and
in favour of constitutional methods of agitation; we are attacking
the Constitution with the very beginnings, the mere lispings, of
Socialism.

Whiggery, therefore, in its various forms, is the representative of
Constitutionalism--is the outward expression of monopoly and
consequent artificial restraints on labour and life; and there is
only one expression of the force which will destroy Whiggery, and
that is Socialism; and on the right hand and on the left Toryism and