Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Ethics of Socialism: Being Further Essays in Modern Socialist Criticism, Etc
The advance of the Socialistic movement within the last two years, fie, since the publication of the Religion of Socialism, has been marked in Eng land in two ways. Firstly, the Trades' Unions have begun to be penetrated by socialistic ideas. The solid front of true British stupidity, of which, un fortunately, hitherto, they have been the embodiment, has at length, to say the least, been broken. Economic causes must infallibly do the rest before very long. Thesecond noteworthy point in the progress of the English movement is the steady accession of what is sometimes termed the intellectual proletariat to the cause of Socialism. By the intellectual proletariat is to be understood the increasing class of young men of the middle-classes, who, while provided with a good, and, in some cases, a liberal education, can find no Opening for a livelihood in modern society. These persons are Often possessed of the higher culture (to employ a phrase which has become current drawing-room slang), and yet they are commonly driven to the greatest shifts to gain a bare subsistence. While they have often to endure the hardships of the manual proletariat, their suffering is increased by the very fact of their education. This class is, if we mistake not, likely to do yeoman's service in the cause of the Social Revolution in those countries where, as in England. It is largely represented. Although sprung from the middle-classes, economic progress can hardly fail to force it, as a class, into the struggle on the side of the fourth estate.
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