ABSTRACT

Socialism is the Philosophy of Political Economy of the working classes. Militant socialism has its non-combatants, its men of thought as well as its men of deed. Collectivists as believers in organized development rely on the power of human will to modify the social structure and on the rights of collective humanity to conquer natural obstacles to human progress. The moral philosophy of scientific socialism embraces the modern view of ethics. But at the same time exaggerates the importance of its realistic groundwork, and excludes too rigidly the ideal factors from this "new morality". Similarly in the view of modern socialists, a series of social formations, changing according to circumstances, is accompanied by a series of moral transformations. By a similar transmutation of ideas affecting the law of property, ethical conceptions undergo change with important bearings on the social organism, its growth and development.