The Day of Judgment baixar o livro de graça

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IV There is no one so well prepared as the Socialist to interpret current developments. The daily history of the nation and the world ought to be the Socialist's university. Every event, from the Philippine war to the Chicago theater fire, from the revision of our public school system to the latest historical novel, ought to be seized upon as a platform upon which the Socialist may stand and speak his interpretative message. He should show what each event or development means in the light of the economic law of history, and in the light of the Socialist hope for the world. For instance, there has been much ignorant and fruitless discussion concerning so-called imperialism, this last five or six years, in both England and America. The Socialist has been the only one who could interpret these wars of conquest, as modes or phases of economic competition. They are but the necessity of the growth of capitalism. As I have elsewhere pointed out, when the people of a nation become too poor to buy the things which they make, the owners of the sources of profit must seek . new markets and cheaper labor. That is why England is in Africa and Asia; why the United States is in the Philippine islands: why we are reaching out grasping hands to the islands and peoples of South America. We are expanding in order that our capital may have contract or slave-labor, such as we now have in the Sandwich islands, and that we may unload upon exploited peoples our surplus products. As Socialists, we could have shown the genius and capitalist nature of the passion of the nations for expansion; could have made clear that imperialism, or benevolent assimilation, is but a commercial and speculative evolution. But it does not seem to me that we have availed ourselves of the opportunity presented to...