Excerpt from Socialism TO the ordinary man, not of the street but of the suburb, Socialism covers a multitude of sins. He does not understand what Socialism means - and probably does not want to understand. It occupies in the vocabulary of his intelligence a place with those abracadabra and mystic pass words which, when uttered, raise the seven devils. It is nothing but waste of time to explain new ideas to such people. They are the despair of everyone who tries to bring commonsense into politics, and the victims of those who appeal to popular ignorance and fear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.