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In political practice, therefore, they join in all coercive

measures against the working class; and in ordinary life, despite

their high falutin phrases, they stoop to pick up the golden

apples dropped from the tree of industry, and to barter truth,

love, and honour for traffic in wool, beetroot-sugar, and potato

spirits.

As the parson has ever gone hand in hand with the landlord, so

has Clerical Socialism with Feudal Socialism.

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist

tinge. Has not Christianity declaimed against private property,

against marriage, against the State? Has it not preached in the

place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification

of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church? Christian

Socialism is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates

the heart-burnings of the aristocrat.

B. Petty-Bourgeois Socialism