Excerpt from The Problem of Parliament: A Criticism and a Remedy As we have said, the problem of abolishing poverty is, in our opinion, the problem of finding the right government; and we shall endeavour in this little book to sum up the case for Socialism as the only remedy and a Socialist government as the only effective method of action. We believe, above all, in the necessity for putting all efforts into the form of an effective political campaign among the electors, to convert them to Socialism; and against the present inefficient legislators and administra tors, to defeat them. A political programme, and sound political action, we consider the main line of practical advance. We shall endeavour to show how political programmes and actions of the past have been futile, how Toryism and Radicalism have failed, and how Trade Unionism and Labourism have been unable to do all they hoped. We shall then state the case for Socialism, and a Socialist Party to put it into practice. We want, in brief, to give a summary of what Socialism is in theory and as a practical programme; and further, and perhaps more urgently, to link this theory and this programme to the immediate question of the tactics which Socialists should pursue at the present time. Socialism in theory and practice, is the scope of our book. 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.