What Is Socialism?

It was a reform movement that focused on a handful of reforms. They were overwhelmingly concerned with economic reforms. Also some political reforms. And it was overwhelmingly made up of farmers. But the movement also reached out to industrial workers. The word you would use in europe, in ireland, is class conscious. Now, they did not use the word socialism to describe themselves but obviously hey verged on so it was something very close to socialism. In a lot of respects. There were all sorts of ways in which they were way ahead of the rest of the country. For example, the their criticism of the gold standard is like something that we would almost all agree with to day, but at