Socialism and Democracy in Europe

Socialism and Democracy in Europe is by Samuel Peter Orth. The preface says it is becoming more and more evident that democracy has served only the first years of its apprenticeship. The preface says the workingman has taken an advanced place in the struggle for the democratization of industry, first through the organization of labor unions and secondly through the development of political parties, labor parties.

The writer says they will try to discover what the Socialist movement is doing in politics, how much of theory has been merged in political practice, and what its everyday parliamentary drudgery is. The text calls it a significant concession that Bebel is willing to be a candidate for President of the Reichstag, and says it would have been deemed impossible ten years ago that the Radicals and many National Liberals would be willing to vote for him. A speaker says he is a Londoner born and bred and has made London questions the chief study of his life.