Excerpt from Commonsense Socialism: The Inadequacy of the Reward of Labour, the Depression of Trade, and the Organization of Material Progress That the latter find themselves in opposition to the State, is not the fault of their Socialism, but either of their extremism or of their obnoxious methods of proceeding. That they sometimes - as in America - are working hand in hand with Anarchists, is not due to a conformity of convictions, but to the circumstance, that both parties are in a minority. But, as a matter of fact, Socialism is directly opposed to Anarchism. As the old party-lines are obliterated more and more, a new cleavage of society takes place, determined by opinion upon social subjects, of which so-called political questions form only a part. On one side will range themselves the forces of Anar chism together with that conservative Individualism which declines to interfere for the preservation of the common wealth, and prefers to let matters drift into the state which the Anarchists are endeavouring to produce by action. The other side will be held by Socialism, the only really constructive force, reinforced by the enlightened conservatism of common sense, which has the courage to sacrifice the semblance for the substance and, if necessary, the part for the whole. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.