The economic progress and political reforms of this capitalistic age are doubtless bringing us nearer to the day when a new and fair division of goods and rights _can_ take place, and they will make the great transformation easier when it comes, but this does not mean that in themselves they constitute even a first step in the new dispensation.

That they do is denied by all the most representative Socialists from Marx to Bebel.
The most bitter opponents of Socialism, like its most thoroughgoing advocates, have come to see that the whole character of the movement has grown up from its unwillingness to compromise the aggressive tactics indispensable for the revolutionary changes it has in view, until it has become obvious that, _just as Socialism as a social movement is the opposite pole to State capitalism, so Socialism as a social method is the opposite pole to opportunism_.
FOOTNOTES: [93] The Communist Manifesto.
[94] _The Coming Nation_, Sept.

9, 1911.
[95] Mr.Gompers's articles in the _Federationist_ have recently appeared in book form.
[96] Carl D.Thompson, "The Constructive Program of Socialism" (pamphlet).
[97] Victor Grayson and G.R.

S.Taylor, "The Problem of Parliament," p.
56.
[98] Editorial in the _Socialist Review_ (London), May, 1910.
[99] _Vorwaerts_ (Milwaukee), Jan.

3, 1893.
[100] Edmond Kelly, "Individualism and Collectivism," p.