ABSTRACT
Socialism, Wells argued, advocates neither the lack of any legal or moral regulation of sexual activity nor a reactionary society in which traditional values are maintained by keeping the masses ignorant. Instead, socialism denied there should be property in human beings. A quarter of a century ago Socialism was still to a very large extent a doctrine of negative, a passionate criticism and denial of the theories that sustained and excused the injustices of contemporary life, a repudiation of social and economic methods then held to be indispensable and in the very nature of things. Socialism, Wells argued, advocates neither the lack of any legal or moral regulation of sexual activity nor a reactionary society in which traditional values are maintained by keeping the masses ignorant. Instead, socialism denied there should be property in human beings. People needed to be liberated, in particular women and children in the patriarchal family.
