Excerpt from The Socialism of to-Day: A Source-Book of the Present Position and Recent Development of the Socialist and Labor Parties in All Countries The time for a third stage is at hand, and it will mark a revolution in the treatment of the subject. Even when Socialism is regarded as a movement, the diffi culty remains that it must be presented by an individual, who is either a Socialist or an anti-socialist. In either case partisanship almost inevitably creeps in, and the reader's only recourse is to refer to a number of vol umes before he can be certain he has secured a non partisan and balanced view. The time has arrived when the educated public will demand that this great movement be discussed in a more rigidly scientific manner - a treat ment that can be secured only by the publication of original documents with the minimum of editorial com ment, the selection of such documents being made ex elusively with a view to their importance and without regard to their tendency. 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.