Book excerpt: Excerpt from Socialism Means Slavery for the Working Man Being myself a mechanic and ever deeply interested, as I am to-day, in the uplifting of the toiling masses, I entered upon the study of Socialism with the avowed intention of joining the movement if I found its platform, plans, and purposes to be honest, practicable, and progressive. I there fore hope that in reading this statement of my final conclu sions, every Socialist will in fairness extend to me the right he claims for himself - the simple right to express my own thoughts, the right to paint the picture as I myself see it. 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.