A Critical Examination of Socialism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9715970 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Jones (0000-0002-4097-1886), W H Mallock |
| Year | 1908 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 72 |
| Pages | 557 |
| Publication date | 1908-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2220623 |
| OpenAlex | W2073988371 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
The word socialism is used in so many senses, and asso ciated with their own attitudes by so grotesque a variety of people, that, if it means anything which is capable of being discussed at all, we must consider what it is as a something which is worth discussing, and what we are really talking about when we talk about its rise and spread. Now, the first fact as to which we should make ourselves clear is this?that, when we talk about the rise and spread of socialism, we are not talking about its rise and spread in the sense in which socialists and others are accustomed to talk about the rise and spread of capitalism. When socialistic historians insist, as they very rightly do, that capitalism, in its existing form, made its first great growth about the middle of the eighteenth century and has subsequently spread itself throughout all civilized coun tries, they mean that it rose and has spread as an actual method of production, the success of which is due to its efficiency in the actual augmentation of wealth. But to talk about the rise and spread of socialism in this sense would be meaningless ; for, with the exception of scattered and unsuccessful experiments, social ism, in the sense of an actual method of production, does not exist to-day, and has never existed hitherto, in any age or coun try whatsoever. Socialism stands, therefore, and can stand only, not for any productive system of a novel kind, which is in actual operation anywhere and is spreading because it is workable, but merely for a theory, a belief, or often for no more than a feel ing, that such a productive system will be found workable some day. We have, therefore, to examine it as a theory, and as a theory only. Bui even when we have settled thus much, ?th?r difBeult?es
Communism · Economics · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Politics · Socialism · Law · Political Economy and Marxism
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1980 - 2018 (39) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |