Author: Upton Sinclair

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 9781230386553

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter vii the industrial republic and now let us imagine that society has abolished exploitation and the competitive wage-system, and got its breath and found leisure to examine itself under the new regime. How will it find things proceeding? One of the first objections that you will run up against, if ever you-start out to agitate Socialism, is your lack of definiteness. Give us your program, people will say--we want to know what sort of a world you expect to make, and how you are going to make it. And they will grow angry when they find that you have not a cut-anddried scheme of society in your pocket--that you have stirred them up all to no purpose. And yet that is just what you have to go on doing. There used to be Utopian Socialists--Plato was the first of them and Bellamy was the last--who knew the coming world from its presidents to its chimneysweeps; who could tell you the very colour of its postage-stamps. But nowadays all Socialists are scientific. They say that social changes are the product of the interaction of innumerable forces, and cannot be definitely foretold; they say that the new organism will be the result of the strivings of millions of men, acted upon by various motives, ideals, prejudices and fears. And so they call themselves no longer builders of systems, but preachers of righteousness; their answer to objectors is that I once heard given by Hanford, recent candidate for vice-president on the Socialist ticket, to a lawyer with whom he was debating: "Do you ask for a map of Heaven before you join the Church?" This much we may say, however. The Industrial Republic will be an industrial government of the people, by the people, for the people. Exactly as political sovereignty is the property of the community, so...

Download or read book The Industrial Republic; a Study of the America of Ten Years Hence written by Upton Sinclair and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter vii the industrial republic and now let us imagine that society has abolished exploitation and the competitive wage-system, and got its breath and found leisure to examine itself under the new regime. How will it find things proceeding? One of the first objections that you will run up against, if ever you-start out to agitate Socialism, is your lack of definiteness. Give us your program, people will say--we want to know what sort of a world you expect to make, and how you are going to make it. And they will grow angry when they find that you have not a cut-anddried scheme of society in your pocket--that you have stirred them up all to no purpose. And yet that is just what you have to go on doing. There used to be Utopian Socialists--Plato was the first of them and Bellamy was the last--who knew the coming world from its presidents to its chimneysweeps; who could tell you the very colour of its postage-stamps. But nowadays all Socialists are scientific. They say that social changes are the product of the interaction of innumerable forces, and cannot be definitely foretold; they say that the new organism will be the result of the strivings of millions of men, acted upon by various motives, ideals, prejudices and fears. And so they call themselves no longer builders of systems, but preachers of righteousness; their answer to objectors is that I once heard given by Hanford, recent candidate for vice-president on the Socialist ticket, to a lawyer with whom he was debating: "Do you ask for a map of Heaven before you join the Church?" This much we may say, however. The Industrial Republic will be an industrial government of the people, by the people, for the people. Exactly as political sovereignty is the property of the community, so...