British Socialism

Its opponents have described it as "a doctrine of sordid materialism and of atheism", they have denounced it as "the gospel of everlasting bellyful", and as "the coming slavery". They have stated that Socialism means to abolish religion, that it "would try to put laziness, thriftlessness, and inefficiency on a par with industry, thrift, and efficiency, that it would strive to break up not merely private property, but, what is far more important, the home, the chief prop upon which our whole civilisation stands". The Socialists, on the other hand, claim that "Socialism presents the only living ideal of human existence"; that "Socialism is science applied with knowledge and understanding to all branches of human activity"; that "Socialism is freedom", and that it is exceedingly just, for "the justice of Socialism will see all things, and therefore understand all things".