SOCIALISM.
Mil RAMS.AV MACDONALD’S VIEWS. Mr Ramsay MacDonald, the wellknown Labour M.P., recently accepted—alter consult; l .lion with the officers ol his party—an invitation to lunch with the Kaiser, v.dio holds the Socialist movement in abhorrence. A number of branches ’of the Labour Party thereupon passed resolutions condemning .Mr MacDonald for - “dining with tiie enemies of Socialism.” This censure Mr MacDonald characterises as “simply impertinent and lurry.’' He admits that the Dorman (Jovernment has tried to repress Socialism, hut “it such a clap-trap rule were
to 1)0 laid down, some Socialists could not oven dine with their wives, and they could not oven cross the threshold of members of their own family.”
The “plain rule” that ho lays down for guidance is that, so long as op position to Socialism is rational and “proceeds on civil lines of a constitutional and civilised character,” it cannot bo regarded as making compulsory the breaking of personal contact.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 147, 14 August 1911, Page 8
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