State Socialism. Let them make their experiments and blunders, and
prepare the way for us by so doing. And our own business? Well, we-
-sect or party, or group of self-seekers, madmen, and poets, which
you will--are at least the only set of people who have been able to
see that there is and has been a great class-struggle going on.
Further, we can see that this class-struggle cannot come to an end
till the classes themselves do: one class must absorb the other.
Which, then? Surely the useful one, the one that the world lives by,
and on. The business of the people at present is to make it
impossible for the useless, non-producing class to live; while the
business of Constitutionalism is, on the contrary, to make it
possible for them to live. And our business is to help to make the
people CONSCIOUS of this great antagonism between the people and
Constitutionalism; and meantime to let Constitutionalism go on with
its government unhelped by us at least, until it at last becomes
CONSCIOUS of its burden of the people's hate, of the people's
knowledge that it is disinherited, which we shall have done our best
to further by any means that we could.

As to Socialists in Parliament, there are two words about that. If
they go there to take a part in carrying on Constitutionalism by
palliating the evils of the system, and so helping our rulers to bear
their burden of government, I for one, and so far as their action
therein goes, cannot call them Socialists at all. But if they go
there with the intention of doing what they can towards the
disruption of Parliament, that is a matter of tactics for the time
being; but even here I cannot help seeing the danger of their being
seduced from their true errand, and I fear that they might become, on
the terms above mentioned, simply supporters of the very thing they
set out to undo.