Excerpt from Socialism and Politics: An Address and a Programme
It May Perhaps Be Within The recollection of some of this audience, that a year ago, in speaking of the final belief & practice of the greatest of English Socialists, I summed up his view as to the work & duty of the party in a single sentence indicating a single tack. Their primary duty, their all- absorbing work, was to make Socialists: that, and that only.
The twelve months which have passed since then have not in the least altered my view as to the purport of the doctrine thus laid down by William Morris - and indeed he expressed it so often, so clearly, and so emphatically, that no doubt with regard to that is possible - nor my belief, if that were a matter of importance, that in taking up this ground he was profoundly right. But in asking you to consider with me this evening the relation between Socialism and Politics, I should like to look at the whole question in a somewhat fuller and larger way: partly in relation to history, that is, to ascertained facts: partly in relation to principle, that is, to the ideas behind and beyond facts: and partly also, though for the most part incidentally and by implication, in relation to what is called practical policy, that is, the application of principles or ideas to particular occasions and circumstances.
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