INTRODUCTORY NOTES: PAGE By Professor Franklin H. Giddings v By Rufus W. Weeks xii INTRODUCTORY 1
I. SUBJECTIVE OBSTACLES TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIALISM 18 Vested Interests 18
II. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS 23 1. Bourgeois, Revolutionist, and Evolutionist 23 (_a_) The Bourgeois Point of View 23 (_b_) The Revolutionist Point of View 24 (_c_) The Evolutionist Point of View 27
III. MISREPRESENTATION AND IGNORANCE 31 1. Socialism is not Anarchism 31 2. Socialism is not Communism 33 3. Socialism will not Suppress Competition 36 4. Socialism will not Destroy the Home 40 5. Socialism will not Abolish Property 42 6. Socialism will not Impair Liberty 46 7. Conclusion 51
EVILS OF CAPITALISM 53 I. CAPITALISM IS STUPID 57 1. Overproduction 57 2. Unemployment 66 3. Prostitution 79 4. Strikes and Lockouts 86 5. Adulteration 88
II. CAPITALISM IS WASTEFUL 94 1. Getting the Market 95 2. Cross Freights 96
III. CAPITALISM IS DISORDERLY 101 1. Anarchy of Production and Distribution 102 (_a_) Tyranny of the Market 102 (_b_) Tyranny of the Trust 104 (_c_) Tyranny of the Trade Union 106
IV. PROPERTY AND LIBERTY 112 1. Origin of Property 113
V. RESULTS OF PROPERTY 131 1. The Guilds 135 2. Trade Unions 140 3. The Unsolved and Insoluble Problems of Trade Unionism 159 (_a_) The Conflict between the Trust and the Trade Union 167 (_b_) Advantage of Trusts over Unions 169 (_c_) Advantage of Unions over Trusts 171
VII. CAN THE EVILS OF CAPITALISM BE ELIMINATED BY COÖPERATION 199
II. ECONOMIC CONSTRUCTION OF THE COÖPERATIVE COMMONWEALTH 235 1. How Socialism May Come 239 2. Reform and Revolution 243 3. Possible Transitional Measures 248 4. Farm Colonies 263 5. Land 278 6. Summary of the Productive Side of Economic Construction 286 7. Distribution 288 8. Remuneration 303 9. Circulating Medium under Socialism 307 10. Summary 313
III. POLITICAL ASPECT 317 1. Education 325 2. Churches 328 3. Political Construction 329
IV. SCIENTIFIC ASPECT 335 1. Natural Environment 337 (_a_) Struggle for Life or Competitive System 337 (_b_) Coöperative System 342 2. Human Environment 349 3. Effect of Competitive System on Type 357 4. Brief Restatement 360 5. Can Human Nature be Changed by Law 364 6. Summary 374
V. ETHICAL ASPECT 378 1. Conflict between Science and Religion 378 2. Conflict between Economics and Religion 389 3. Socialism Reconciles Religion, Economics, and Science 395