"The real fruit of their victory," he said, "lies, not in immediate results, but in the ever expanding union of the workers."[2] As the struggle evolved and became better organized, it tended more and more definitely and irresistibly towards a certain goal, whether the workers were yet aware of it or not.
If, therefore, we Socialists participate in the real struggles of politics, Marx said of himself and his associates (in 1844, at the very outset of his career), "we expose new principles to the world out of the principles of the world itself....

We only explain to it the real object for which it struggles."[3] But the public still fails, in spite of the phenomenal and continued growth of the Socialist movement in all modern countries, to grasp the first principle on which it is based.
"Socialism has many phases," says a typical editorial in the _Independent_.

"It is a political party, an economic creed, a religion, and a stage of history.

It is world-wide, vigorous, and growing.

No man can tell what its future will be.