author - "Robert Tressell"
d the `great statesmen' who make anti-socialist speeches: unless webelieve that they are deliberate liars and imposters, who to servetheir own interests labour to mislead other people, we must concludethat they do not understand Socialism. There is no other possibleexplanation of the extraordinary things they write and say. The thingthey cry out against is not Socialism but a phantom of their ownimagining.
Another answer is that `The Philanthropists' is not a treatise oressay, but a novel. My main object was to write a readable story fullof human interest and based on the happenings of everyday life, thesubject of Socialism being treated incidentally.
This was the task I set myself. To what extent I have succeeded isfor others to say; but whatever their verdict, the work possesses atleast one merit - that of being true. I have invented nothing. Thereare no scenes or incidents in the story that I have not eitherwitnessed myself or had conclusive evidence of. As far as I dared Ilet th
d the `great statesmen' who make anti-socialist speeches: unless webelieve that they are deliberate liars and imposters, who to servetheir own interests labour to mislead other people, we must concludethat they do not understand Socialism. There is no other possibleexplanation of the extraordinary things they write and say. The thingthey cry out against is not Socialism but a phantom of their ownimagining.
Another answer is that `The Philanthropists' is not a treatise oressay, but a novel. My main object was to write a readable story fullof human interest and based on the happenings of everyday life, thesubject of Socialism being treated incidentally.
This was the task I set myself. To what extent I have succeeded isfor others to say; but whatever their verdict, the work possesses atleast one merit - that of being true. I have invented nothing. Thereare no scenes or incidents in the story that I have not eitherwitnessed myself or had conclusive evidence of. As far as I dared Ilet th