Amazon.com description: Product Description: In this text we learn how socialism arose, as a movement of protest, and through the acceptance of the principle of evolution became a conscious, disciplined force with a definite aim. That politically, socialism is represented by a great international party with nearly 10,000,000 voters and 40,000,000 adult sympathizers. And how socialism must be considered as a criticism of existing society, as a philosophy of social evolution, as a social forecast or ideal, and as a movement for the attainment of the ideal.