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Chapter XII: Part 12

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Socialist Politics, 47
Programme, 48
Formation of party, 198

Socialists and the police, 100
Early (See UTOPIAN SOCIALISM).
The _mot d’ordre_ for, 139
Social Democrats fall into line as a political party, 170
The Radical Press and, 195
Parliament and, 197
Future leader for, 199

Spencer, Herbert, 36, 41, 47, 58, 95, 160, 169

St. Matthew, Guild of, 39

Standard Oil Trust, 85

“Star, The,” 48

State: Social Democratic, 2
Functions under Socialism, 149
Corruption of the, 164
Whig conception of the, 165
Conception of the perfect, 165
Decentralization in the Social Democratic, 170
Private Property and the, 190
Attitude of parties towards the, 190
Idea and content of the, 191
The working-class and the, 191

Statistics and Statisticians, 173

Steam applied to cotton spinning, 59

Stuart, Professor James, 48

Subletting of Tenant Right, 5

Subsistence Wages, _Rationale_ of, 16

Sunday: Hypocrisies of church going, 5
The English, 133

Sunderland, 46

Supply and Demand: Action of, 8, 179
Value decreases with Supply, 10
Final effect on wage-labor, 16, 17

Sweating, How to defeat, 175

Sweeping Chimneys: Replacement of boy labor by machinery in, 146

Syndicate of Copper Cornerers, 84

Synthesis: The old, 31, 157
The new, 50

Talent, Career open to, 7

Taxation: Reform, 48
Of ground values, 171
Novel character of recent demands for, 172

Telegraphs, Socialization of, 139

Ten Hours’ Bill, The, 69

Tenant Rights: Perpetual, 4, 5, 6
Replaced by finite leases, 8

Tennyson, Alfred, 68

Test and Corporation Acts repealed, 34

Theatres, Communal, 135

Tocqueville, A. C. H. C. de, 29

Tory of fifty years ago, 188-9
Absorption of the party, 189

Tonquin, French policy in, 75

“Total Utility,” 11

Toynbee, Arnold, 33

Trade: Secrets of, 14
Discredit and rehabilitation of as a pursuit for the nobility and
gentry, 108

Trade Unions, 48, 132, 168
Wages in, 141
Royal Commission (1869), 169

Trafalgar Square: The police in, 100, 174
The Fountains in, 107

Traffic in Men, 9

Tramways, Socialization of, 46, 139

Transition to Social Democracy, 157

Truck Acts, 41

Trusts, 14, 138, 143, 185

Tucker, Benjamin R., 160

Turgot, A. R. J., 161

Two-man power more than double One-man power, 3

Unemployed: Their existence a proof that the labor they could replace
has no exchange value, 139
Social pressure created by the, 172

United States: Results of Individualism plus political liberty in
the, 21
Declaration of Independence, 60
Growth of Monopoly in the, 78
Extent to which monopoly has gone in the, 82

Unskilled Labor, Fate of, 112

Unsocialism, 2

Utilitarian questioning and scientific answering, 23

Utilitarians, The, 38

Utility: Its relation to Value, 10
“Total Utility,” “Marginal,” or “Final Utility,” 11, 12
Divorce from Exchange Value, 19

Utopian Socialism, 27, 30, 119, 136, 160, 164

Valjean, Jean, 100

Value in Exchange, 9
Not explained by the money mechanism, 10
Man’s control over it consists in his power of regulating supply, 14
Divorced from social utility, 19
Theory of, 162

Voluntary Associations: Their legal position under Socialism, 124

Von Plener, E., 36

Vestrydom congenial to British mind, 182

Villiers, C. P., 39

Virtues conditioned by social evolution, 99, 100-6

Wages, 15
Subsistence level, 16
Adjustment, 148
Rise after 1840, 167
Apparently raised by Trade Unions, 168
Competition wages, 176
Socialistic wages, 147, 177-8

Walford’s Insurance Cyclopædia, 46

Walker, F. A., 4

Wallas, Graham, 119

Walpole, Sir Robert, 72

Warren, Sir Charles, 174

Wars for foreign markets, 75, 181, 182

Warwick compared with Birmingham, 123

Watt, James, 33

Watts, Isaac, on the cotton manufacture, 66

Waterloo Bridge, Socialization of, 133

Waterworks, Socialization of, 46, 139

Wealth: Divorced from Exchange Value, 19

Wealth: Distinguished from “Illth,” 19
“Wealth of Nations,” 32

Weaver, Extirpation of the hand-loom, 60, 72

Webb, Sidney, 26, 27, 99, 184

Westminster, Duke of, 173

Whig Philosophy, 164
Economics, 164
Disappearance of the, 188
The Whig of fifty years ago, 188-9

White Slavery, 36, 40

“White Terror, The,” 34

Whitman, Walt, 92

Wicksteed, P. H., 162

William the Silent, Assassination of, 76

Women: Effect of Property System on, 108-10
Outlawry of, 176
Economic independence of, 182

Worker and Drone, 3

Working class: Militant organization of, 183
The State and the, 190
Political superstitions of the, 192

Zeitgeist, Effect of the, 44

Transcriber’s Notes

Errors and omissions in punctuation were corrected.

The page reference in the Table of Contents to the start of William Clarke’s article on the Fabian Society and its work has been corrected.

Page xiii: “or _Debats_” changed to “or _Débats_”

Page xxxiii: “ignorant and presumptous” changed to “ignorant and presumptuous”

Page 14: “being disengenuous” changed to “being disingenuous”

Page 30: “wider concensus” changed to “wider consensus”

Page 33: “of these man” changed to “of these men”

Page 38: “French contempories” changed to “French contemporaries”

Page 40: “nett result” changed to “net result”

Page 52: “not neccessarily” changed to “not necessarily”

Page 71: “conquest or Canada” changed to “conquest of Canada”

Page 79: “conceited, hyprocritical” changed to “conceited, hypocritical”

Page 162: “dialectrical war” changed to “dialectical war”

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