ABSTRACT

The theory worked wonderfully in the sphere of production and trade. If all this change were part of a developing Socialism it would be a matter for rejoicing. A European convulsion, of such extraordinary and sanguinary violence that all revolutions of which we have any record seem trifles in comparison, has changed the world more in four years than Fabian constitutional action seems likely to do in four hundred. Thirty years of constitutional agitation and parliamentary work had ended in the passing of a Home Rule Act. These were very coon convinced by their opponents that the establishment of Socialism must be effected by discussion and vote, but by those who actively desired it killing those who actively objected to it. The effort usually exhausts the dictator; but even when it he finds that he cannot be everywhere and superintend the doing of everything like the chief of a small tribe: he must have a Constitution.