The Tenth Step in Socialism

The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride, he will see to it that others receive liberty which he thus claims as his own. The overbearing brutality of the man of wealth or power is really at root merely different manifestations of the same quality. Persecution is bad because it is persecution, and without reference to which side happens at the moment to be the persecute or and which the persecutes had. Class hatred is bad in just the same way, and without regard to the individual who substitutes loyalty to a class for loyalty to a nation. There are plenty of good men calling themselves socialists with whom up to a certain point, it is quite possible