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    Why I am in favor of socialism
    Why I am in favor of socialism
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      Why I am in favor of socialism - Archive Classics

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      Title: Why I am in favor of socialism

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      Why I Am

      In Favor of Socialism

      SYMPOSIUM

      Original Papers

      EDWARD SILVIN

      Sacramento, California

      U. S. A.

      Copyright, 1913

      BY EDWARD SILVIN

      INDEX TO AUTHORS

      Why I Am In Favor of Socialism

      London, Jack. (Author.)

      I am in favor of Socialism because I am an individualist, and because in Socialism I see the only possible social organization that will give equal opportunity and an even chance to every individual to develop and realize what is strongest and best in him—and in her, if you please.

      Because Socialism is in line with social evolution, is foreshadowed as inevitable by today's social tendencies, was foreshadowed as inevitable by the social tendencies of ten thousand years ago and ten thousand generations ago.

      Because I am convinced that it is the only form of social organization that will give a square deal to the little boys and girls that are coming into the world today, tomorrow, and in the days after tomorrow's morrow.

      Cutler, James Elbert. (University Professor.)

      I am in favor of Socialism as regards its aims and purposes, because I believe it to be in this respect in harmony with the fundamental principles of social progress.

      Loveman, Robert. (Poet.)

      I believe Plato favored an ideal commonwealth, and I favor Plato.

      Walt Whitman was inclined towards the Utopian theory—and Walt was a poet with a yawp, that was perhaps barbarian—but it was emphatic.

      I am something of a Socialist—a little of a Communist—I hope not much of an Anarchist—and I believe with Lincoln that God must love the common people—He made so many of them.

      Wm. Morris, the English poet, had Socialistic theories—and headed a movement in 1884, I believe—so we have plenty of example. I do not hate the rich—but I pity the poor—and I do not think a few men should own billions—and hoard the wealth—and that millions of human kind starving, barely exist. We are still savage.

      Post, Louis Freeland. (Editor, The Public, Chicago, Ill.)

      I am in favor of Socialism because it aims at abolishing the exploitation of labor.

      Smiley, James L. (Clergyman.)

      I am in favor of Socialism because—First: It stands for absolute justice. It guarantees to every one the full product of his labor. It provides that children

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