Socialism is opposed to monopoly, that is, to private ownership of land and the instruments of labor, which is indirect ownership of men; to the wages system, by which labor is legally robbed of a large part of the product of labor; to competition with its enormous waste of effort and its opportunities for the spoliation of the weak by the strong.
Socialism is industrial democracy.

It is the government of the people by the people and for the people, not in the present restricted sense, but as regards all the common interests of men.
Socialism is opposed to oligarchy and monarchy, and therefore to the tyrannies of business cliques and money kings.

Socialism is for freedom, not only from the fear of force, but from the fear of want.

Socialism proposes real liberty, not merely the right to vote, but the liberty to live for something more than meat and drink.
"Socialism is righteousness in the relations of men.

It is based on the fundamentals of religion, the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of men.