ABSTRACT
The revolution the socialists want to realize will be made by the workers to acquire the administration of their own production. Since socialism has often a certain democratic development, it can be maintained that it is an extension of democracy, and since it differs from democracy, it can be maintained with as much verisimilitude that it is in contradiction with it. Sycophants appear to be one of the essential parts of the democratic mechanism, and French parliamentary socialists have exhibited a delirious enthusiasm for the abominable delation made by the minister, Combes. The relations between democracy and socialism are complicated and obscure. Athenian democracy provides the notable example of an urban population that cannot live without state support, and charges the state to procure resources through taxation to come to its aid. The entire urban economy is dominated by considerations of talent.
