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    Why I am opposed to socialism
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      Title: Why I am opposed to socialism

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      Release Date: August 29, 2011 [EBook #37246]

      Language: English

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      Why I Am

      Opposed to Socialism

      Original Papers by

      Leading Men and Women

      EDWARD SILVIN

      SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA

      U.S.A.

      Copyright, 1913

      By EDWARD SILVIN

      INDEX TO AUTHORS

      The gentle reader, who is inclined to say why he is opposed to Socialism, is cordially invited to contribute his thoughts to the future editions of this little book.

      Why I Am Opposed to Socialism

      Eggert, Charles Augustus.  (Author and College Professor.)

      I am opposed to Socialism, first, because it is not an inductively obtained system, but an ism that postulates qualities in the individuality of a nation which no nation, or community even, has yet developed to a sufficiently high state to make this ism fit to be seriously tried.

      Second: Much of what Socialism teaches will be put to the test by society anyhow, for society is based on interest, on financial considerations, and it has been found very long ago, that co-operation cheapens products, while steadying employment.

      Third: As a working system Socialism is based on the limited intellectual powers of a large number of people who will not receive systematic instruction, or cannot. Any large school shows how large the proportion of children is who must eventually be, as adults, members of this number, and, by exercising their right to vote for their officers and leaders, will make a scientific and economical management exceedingly difficult, if not impossible. Tried on a limited scale it amounts only to co-operation—different from Socialism.

      Fourth: The existing system is based on the rewards held out to individual effort, thus furnishing leaders who, by accumulating capital through self-denial, great moderation in the pursuit of pleasure, and strenuous work, will be eventually enabled to establish large combinations, factories, corporations of all sorts, which, as history and daily experience prove, pay even the unintelligent laborers higher wages and furnish them more security than they could possibly have obtained if left to themselves as Socialistic organizations. In order to obtain the best results, however, a protective tariff must keep out undue foreign competition.

      Fifth: Differences of opinion on these points can be settled satisfactorily only by a close and careful study of the history of business, and the leading Socialists, Marx, etc., have been shown to be palpably and grievously incapable of such study.

      Sixth: Socialism would lead to governmental art, science and literature, that is to say to the counterfeit of real art, science, and literature. It would be the rule of the unintelligent and largely of the demagogues (for such would stand a better chance than the honest and thoughtful, for election to offices).

      Seventh: Socialism could not be established (as an ism) except by robbery. Good men would not lend themselves to such business.

      Mencken, Henry Louis.  (Author of The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, editor of The Players' Ibsen, part-author with Robert Rives LaMonte of Men vs. the Man. Member of the editorial staff of the Baltimore Evening Sun.)

      I am opposed to Socialism because, in general, it means a vain and costly attack upon the immutable natural law that the strong shall have advantage over the weak. I do not defend that law as perfect, nor do I even maintain that it is just. If I had the world to make over I should probably try to find something to take its place, something measurably less wasteful and cruel. But the world is as it is and the law is as it is. Say what you

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