First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice. Marx, its founder, concluded that the only way to abolish the class monopolies was to centralize and consolidate all industrial and commercial interests, all productive and distributive agencies, in one vast monopoly in the hands of the State.

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

To the individual can belong only the products to be consumed, not the means of producing them. A man may own his clothes and his food, but not the sewing-mach…

The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or…

Power, instrument of the collective force, created in society to serve as mediator between capital and labor, has become inescapably enchained to capital and d…

We have here the problem of bigness. Its lesson should by now have been burned into our memory by Brandeis. The Curse of Bigness shows how size can become a me…

A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and h…