... mankind in the world? How does it compare with the American conception of democratic equality, and how do both stand with regard to the essential tru... ...ater mass of our English-speaking people is living under the profession of democratic Republi- canism, there is no party, no sect, no periodical, no t... ...e country was drifting 149 H G Wells slowly towards the constitution of a democratic republic. In those days it was that there came into being a theo... ...ly assumed that the alternative to a more or less hereditary government is democratic republicanism of the American type, and the defence of the forme... ...hat infest the world. The theory of monarchy is, no doubt, inferior to the democratic theory in stimulus, but the latter fails in qualitative effect, ... ...ds a profounder revolu- tion, the control of private property. “We are all Socialists nowadays,” and it is needless, therefore, to argue here at any l... ...ty, and the ways in which existing excesses of property are to be reduced, Socialists differ enormously. There are cer- tain extreme expressions of So... ...ity and freedom for complete individual development to every citizen. Such socialists look not so much to the abolition of property as to the abolitio... ...n of property for the services of the community. It is among such moderate socialists that I would number myself. I would make no hard and fast rule w...

..., this transcendental robe in which the German “The Communist Manifesto” 28 Socialists wrapped their sorry “eternal truths,” all skin and bone, serve... ...loped state of the class struggle, as well as their own surroundings, causes Socialists of this kind to consider themselves far superior to all class ... ...eois. By degrees they sink into the category of the reactionary conservative Socialists de picted above, differing from these only by more system at... ...t of the fact that this party consists of antago nistic elements, partly of Democratic Socialists, in the French sense, partly of radical bourgeois.... ...ct that this party consists of antago nistic elements, partly of Democratic Socialists, in the French sense, partly of radical bourgeois. In Poland ... ...e time. Finally, they labour everywhere for the union and agree ment of the democratic parties of all countries. The Communists disdain to conceal th...

...the evi dence of Livy, and upheld, to the best of my ability, the Ro man Democratic party. A few years later, in my contempt of my childish efforts,... ...ory. Saturated as the book is with the opinions and modes of judgment of a democratic radicalism then regarded as ex treme; and treating with a sever... ...s. It allied itself with all my juvenile aspirations to the character of a democratic champion. What had hap pened so lately, seemed as if it might e... ... be found among them, was the object of his sternest disapprobation, and a democratic suffrage the principal article of his political creed, not on th... ...lations of property. On these grounds I was not only as ardent as ever for democratic institutions, but earnestly hoped that Owenite, St. Simonian, an... ...d Democracy, and would class us decidedly under the general designation of Socialists. While we repu diated with the greatest energy that tyranny of ... ... which contemplate possibilities in the fu ture such as, when affirmed by Socialists, have in general been fiercely denied by political economists, w... ...which, though bearing a superficial resemblance to some of the projects of Socialists, is diametrically opposite to them in principle, since it recogn...