Excerpt from The Monist, Vol. 32: A Quarterly Magazine Devoted to the Philosophy of Science At the same time the Marxian socialism is quite the reverse of the previous Utopian socialism just on account of this economic fatalism, which, by making the advent of the desired regime depend on the mechanical and fatal evolution of the economic process, entirely denies a priori the efficacy of law in general, and of the law of property in particular, as regards changing in one direction or in another the economic process itself. The mischief done by this economic fatalism to the action of the socialist party, though not very gravely felt as long as this party was obliged, by the feebleness of its forces, to limit itself to a merely negative action of criticism, is severely felt now that the party, with its forces so not ably increased as to put it in a position to act, would re quire a positive programme of action. 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.