Why I Am Not a Socialist Kindle Edition

This small volume was published sometime before World War I and is from a British point of view.Note from the book:In these post-war years all accepted political doctrines are undergoing challenge, and a vast number of intelli- gent people have lost the anchorage of political principle, and are drifting in bewilderment on a sea of conflicting ideas. The pamphlets of which this is one are designed as a contribution towards clarifying this confusion. They are issued under the auspices of the Council of the Liberal Summer Schools. But they are not intended to preach a rigid party orthodoxy. Their aim is constructive study and enquiry rather than dogmatic assertion or acrid denunciation. Some of the writers are not even professed adherents of the Liberal party. But all have been invited to write because they have given- special study to the subjects with which they have to deal. And all are united by two beliefs : the first, a deep dissatisfaction with many aspects of the existing order, at home and abroad ; the second, a conviction that these evils cannot be cured by the glib repetition of sweeping formula, or by violence or class-conflict, or by mere destruction,- but only by hard thinking and good will. Read more