Plebeians in ancient Rome, 125
Plato, 111
Police: Conduct of Socialists charged upon by the, 100
Recent action of the ex-Chief Commissioner of, 174
Political: Tendencies, 48, 186
Reform, 51, 192
“Political Science Quarterly,” 28, 79
Economy (See POLITICAL ECONOMY).
Political Economy, 2
Basis of Socialism in, 1
Definition of Rent in treatises, 4
Theory apparently contradicted by history, 20
Untrustworthiness of abstract, 20
Its guns turned against Private Property, 24
Old school and new, 24
John Stuart Mill, 31, 50, 52
Ricardo, 162
Jevons, 162
Rise of modern, 39, 160
Perceived to be a _reductio ad absurdum_ of Private Property, 162
Present political parties and, 190
Poor Law: A Socialistic institution degraded, 114
Reform, 49
The old and the new, 167
Post Office: A Socialistic institution, 131
Socialization of the postal system, 139
Economy of collectivist charges exemplified by, 168
Population: Increase and its effects, 5, 15, 161, 174
Its control by public opinion, 182
(See also OVERPOPULATION.)
Press: Its liberty after the socialization of printing, 144
Clamor for bloodshed from the newspapers of the proprietary
class, 175
Preston, 46
Its public debt, 127
Prices cannot be raised to compensate diminished profits, 177
Printing, Socialization of, 144
Private Property: Beginning of, 2
Its levelling-down action, 14
Injustice of, 20
Not now practicable in its integrity, 21
Its abrogation conceived as an attempt to empower everyone to rob
everyone else, 22
Its revenue distinguished from earnings, 22
Composition of incomes derived from, 22
Institution of, 103
Conditions of its possibility, 104
Effect on sex relations, 110
Idea of, 111
Rights of, 138
Cheapens the laborer, 179
Tends to make the majority mere beasts of burden, 180
Process of extinction of, 181
The State and, 190
(See also PROPERTY.)
Private Enterprise compared with Public, 168
Produce: Unjust division resulting from private appropriation of
land, 5
Production: Improvements in, 6
Effect of unforeseen improvements in, 12
Conditions of production and exchange, 12
Associated, 121, 133
Profit, 6, 13
Sweater’s, 177
Most important form of “Rent of Ability,” 179
Effect of calculating it in net social welfare instead of individual
pecuniary gain, 181
“Profit Sharing”, 151
Programme of Social Democracy, 182
Progress: Conditions of, 94
Rate of in politics, industry and thought, 186
“Progress and Poverty,” 23-5, 162, 169, 172
“Progress of Socialism,” 41
Proletarian: The first, 6
Predicament of landless, 8
End of his absorption by the land as tenant, 9
Sold into bondage, 10
Operation of the law of value on his position as a vendor of
labor, 15
How the Democratic State will deal with him, 173
(See also PROLETARIAT.)
Proletariat: Origin of the, 6
Exploitation of, 17
Physical degradation of, 67
Type of, 105
Morals of, 110-13
So-called “intellectual,” 180
(See also PROLETARIAN.)
Property: Under Socialism, 119
Definition and economic analysis of, 120
(See also PRIVATE PROPERTY.)
Prosperity, Association of idleness with, 4
Prostitutes, their making, 112
Protection: Decay of, 73
In the Middle Ages, 158
Advocated by the Manchester School, 176
Proudhon, P. J., 162
Public Health Acts, 41
Public Opinion, 182
Purchasing Power--Pernicious effect of its unequal distribution, 19
Quit Rents, 8
Radicalism: Philosophic, 40
The modern Radical Programme, 48
Ordinary destructive variety, 164
Permeation of by Socialism, 196
Absorption of, 199
The land question and, 104
Railways: Requisites for making them under Capitalism, 16
Development of, 75
Socialization of, 139
Raphael’s pictures, 126
Ratepayer, How Socialism will first affect the, 177
Rates, Growth of, 46
Reactionary Legislation, Danger of, 92
Reform Bills, 34, 168
Regicide: Its victims, 84
Its futility, 136
Registration, Anomalous condition of voters’, 170
Regulation of Industry: Medieval, 37, 157-8
Modern (See FACTORY LEGISLATION).
Rent: Recognized and paid by worker to drone, 3
Definitions of economic rent by standard economists, 3, 4
Point at which rent ceases to be strictly “economic rent,” 8
Enters into price of all commodities except those produced at margin
of cultivation, 13
Relation to cost of production, 13
Nationalization of, 21, 46, 182
Is common wealth, not individually earned, 22
Moral Aspect of, 104, 110, 113
Case of Birmingham and Warwick, 123
Law of, 161
Illustration of economic rent, 163
Urban, 171
Effect of municipal Socialism on, 177
How County Councils can manipulate, 178
Nationalizing inter-municipal, 181
Effect of Free Trade on agricultural, 190
Rent of ability, 7, 177
Industrial profit the most important form of, 179
Raised by Private Property, 179
May become negative, 180
Republicanism: Disappearance of militant Republicanism in England, 185
Residuum: Genesis of the, 113
Its appreciation of public hospitality, 114
Respectability, Falsehood of current, 24
Reward of Abstinence, 16
” of effort in the cause of Socialism, 135
Revolt, The Intellectual, 40
Revolution: Middle class notions of, 56
Socialistic attempt to organize militant, 182
(See also INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION and PHYSICAL FORCE.)
Ricardo, David, 4, 39, 162
Riches are not Wealth, 18
Rights of Man, Declaring the, 182
Rings, Growth of capitalist, 82, 127, 184
Ritchie, Right Hon. C. T., 138
Ritchie, D. G., 50
Rochdale Pioneers, 124
Roebuck, J. A., 39
Rogers, Professor Thorold E., 32
Rousseau, J. J., 39
Rural economy in 1750, 32
Russell, Lord John, announces finality, 167
Ruskin, John, 41
Russia’s industrial competition in the world market, 169
Rutland, Duchess of, on the hard work of country gentlemen, 109
Ryot, Suppression of Indian, 113
S. D. F. (Social Democratic Federation), 169
Sadler, Michael Thomas, 69
Salisbury, Rt. Hon., the Marquess of, 129
Satan: His moral activity, 106
Rehabilitation of, 114
“Saul”: Optimism as expressed in Robert Browning’s poem, 23
Saving: Capital the result of, 16
Savings of communities and of individuals, 123
Schools as they should be, 133
Scott, Sir Walter, Political types in “Rob Roy”, 71
Secretan, Eugène, 84
Seeley, J. R., 189
Self, Extension of, 101
Self-defence, Origin of the Noble Art, 100
“Self-help”, 19, 168
Seligman, E. R. A., 79
Servants, Domestic, 111, 172
Servantgalism an Effect of Capitalism, 111
Services, Property in, 130
Settlement, Law of, 31
Seven Years’ War, The, 60
Sewer Cleaning under Socialism, 145
Shaftesbury, Lord, 69
Shaftesbury Avenue, Land near, 127
Shakspere, Suggested Duke of, 132
Shaw, G. Bernard, 1, 157
Shelley, P. B., 100
Shoemaking by hand, 58
By machinery, 61
Shopkeeping, Joint-Stock, 80
Sidgwick, Henry, 4, 52, 130
Sidmouth, Lord, 34
Six Acts, The, 34
“Six Centuries of Work and Wages,” 32
Slave Trade, The, 158
Slavery, The White, 36
Slaves Released when not worth keeping, 15
Smiles, Samuel, 7
Smith, Adam, 32, 38
Societies: Failure of previous attempts to establish true, 20
Societies and Civilizations, 21
(See also SOCIETY.)
Society: Hypothesis that it is no more than the sum of its
Units, 3, 50
The Matrix of Morality, 96
Evolution of Primitive, 96, 98, 101, 103, 112
Industrial, 104
Parasitic, 106-7
Fashionable, 107
(See also SOCIETIES.)
Soils, Resort to Inferior, 3
Somers, Robert, 80
Social: Utility Divorced from Exchange Value, 18
Character of Social Changes, 30
Evolution, 30, 44, 53
“Social Statics,” 36, 54
Health, 51
Organization, 51, 136
Instinct, 101, 109
Social Democratic Federation, 169
Social Democracy and Social Democrat. (See SOCIALISM and SOCIALIST.)
Socialism, 2, 22, 131, 163, 166, 182, 190, 194-95
Economic basis of, 1
Bearing of Economic Analysis of Individualism on, 22
Substitutes Meliorism for Pessimism, 24, 200
Historic Aspect, 26
“Socialism in England,” 27
Change in, 27, 119
Early or Utopian, 27, 30, 119, 136, 160, 164
Industrial Aspect, 56
The Capitalist and, 90
Moral Aspect, 93
Its Genesis, 96
New Conception of, 119
Property under, 119
Definition of pure, 131
Industry under, 136
Change from Individualism to, 137, 157
Local machinery of, 139, 169
Dirty Work under, 145
Transition to, 157
Practical difficulties of, 163
Honesty of, 164
Must be introduced gradually, 166
Solution of the Compensation difficulty, 175
Effect on Rent, 177
Friction caused by introduction of, 178
Outlook toward, 184
Prince Bismarck’s view of, 192
The Liberal Party and, 192
True and False, 193-4
Two views of the future of, 195
Practical politicians and, 196
(See also the Index Generally.)
Socialist Politics, 47
Programme, 48
Formation of party, 198
Socialists and the police, 100
Early (See UTOPIAN SOCIALISM).
The _mot d’ordre_ for, 139
Social Democrats fall into line as a political party, 170
The Radical Press and, 195
Parliament and, 197
Future leader for, 199
Spencer, Herbert, 36, 41, 47, 58, 95, 160, 169
St. Matthew, Guild of, 39
Standard Oil Trust, 85
“Star, The,” 48
State: Social Democratic, 2
Functions under Socialism, 149
Corruption of the, 164
Whig conception of the, 165
Conception of the perfect, 165
Decentralization in the Social Democratic, 170
Private Property and the, 190
Attitude of parties towards the, 190
Idea and content of the, 191
The working-class and the, 191
Statistics and Statisticians, 173
Steam applied to cotton spinning, 59
Stuart, Professor James, 48
Subletting of Tenant Right, 5
Subsistence Wages, _Rationale_ of, 16
Sunday: Hypocrisies of church going, 5
The English, 133
Sunderland, 46
Supply and Demand: Action of, 8, 179
Value decreases with Supply, 10
Final effect on wage-labor, 16, 17
Sweating, How to defeat, 175
Sweeping Chimneys: Replacement of boy labor by machinery in, 146
Syndicate of Copper Cornerers, 84
Synthesis: The old, 31, 157
The new, 50
Talent, Career open to, 7
Taxation: Reform, 48
Of ground values, 171
Novel character of recent demands for, 172
Telegraphs, Socialization of, 139
Ten Hours’ Bill, The, 69
Tenant Rights: Perpetual, 4, 5, 6
Replaced by finite leases, 8
Tennyson, Alfred, 68
Test and Corporation Acts repealed, 34
Theatres, Communal, 135
Tocqueville, A. C. H. C. de, 29
Tory of fifty years ago, 188-9
Absorption of the party, 189
Tonquin, French policy in, 75
“Total Utility,” 11
Toynbee, Arnold, 33
Trade: Secrets of, 14
Discredit and rehabilitation of as a pursuit for the nobility and
gentry, 108
Trade Unions, 48, 132, 168
Wages in, 141
Royal Commission (1869), 169
Trafalgar Square: The police in, 100, 174
The Fountains in, 107
Traffic in Men, 9
Tramways, Socialization of, 46, 139
Transition to Social Democracy, 157
Truck Acts, 41
Trusts, 14, 138, 143, 185
Tucker, Benjamin R., 160
Turgot, A. R. J., 161
Two-man power more than double One-man power, 3
Unemployed: Their existence a proof that the labor they could replace
has no exchange value, 139
Social pressure created by the, 172
United States: Results of Individualism plus political liberty in
the, 21
Declaration of Independence, 60
Growth of Monopoly in the, 78
Extent to which monopoly has gone in the, 82
Unskilled Labor, Fate of, 112
Unsocialism, 2
Utilitarian questioning and scientific answering, 23
Utilitarians, The, 38
Utility: Its relation to Value, 10
“Total Utility,” “Marginal,” or “Final Utility,” 11, 12
Divorce from Exchange Value, 19
Utopian Socialism, 27, 30, 119, 136, 160, 164
Valjean, Jean, 100
Value in Exchange, 9
Not explained by the money mechanism, 10
Man’s control over it consists in his power of regulating supply, 14
Divorced from social utility, 19
Theory of, 162
Voluntary Associations: Their legal position under Socialism, 124
Von Plener, E., 36
Vestrydom congenial to British mind, 182
Villiers, C. P., 39
Virtues conditioned by social evolution, 99, 100-6
Wages, 15
Subsistence level, 16
Adjustment, 148
Rise after 1840, 167
Apparently raised by Trade Unions, 168
Competition wages, 176
Socialistic wages, 147, 177-8
Walford’s Insurance Cyclopædia, 46
Walker, F. A., 4
Wallas, Graham, 119
Walpole, Sir Robert, 72
Warren, Sir Charles, 174
Wars for foreign markets, 75, 181, 182
Warwick compared with Birmingham, 123
Watt, James, 33
Watts, Isaac, on the cotton manufacture, 66
Waterloo Bridge, Socialization of, 133
Waterworks, Socialization of, 46, 139
Wealth: Divorced from Exchange Value, 19
Wealth: Distinguished from “Illth,” 19
“Wealth of Nations,” 32
Weaver, Extirpation of the hand-loom, 60, 72
Webb, Sidney, 26, 27, 99, 184
Westminster, Duke of, 173
Whig Philosophy, 164
Economics, 164
Disappearance of the, 188
The Whig of fifty years ago, 188-9
White Slavery, 36, 40
“White Terror, The,” 34
Whitman, Walt, 92
Wicksteed, P. H., 162
William the Silent, Assassination of, 76
Women: Effect of Property System on, 108-10
Outlawry of, 176
Economic independence of, 182
Worker and Drone, 3
Working class: Militant organization of, 183
The State and the, 190
Political superstitions of the, 192
Zeitgeist, Effect of the, 44
Transcriber’s Notes
Errors and omissions in punctuation were corrected.
The page reference in the Table of Contents to the start of William
Clarke’s article on the Fabian Society and its work has been corrected.
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Page xxxiii: “ignorant and presumptous” changed to “ignorant and
presumptuous”
Page 14: “being disengenuous” changed to “being disingenuous”
Page 30: “wider concensus” changed to “wider consensus”
Page 33: “of these man” changed to “of these men”
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