Download or read book Socialism Critical and Constructive (Classic Reprint) written by James Ramsay MacDonald and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Socialism Critical and Constructive Two great forces are ever in conflict in the breast of Society - habit the force of stagnation, and reason the force of change. The former is commonly misinterpreted and miscalled the conservative force, whereas it is the force which resists life and ultimately ends in decay. The true conservative forces are not static, but are those which carry on life, adapting it to new conditions, producing new organs when new functions have to be performed, substituting new vitalities for spent ones, revolutionary in the sense that they see in the life of Society both the capacity for, and the promise of, fundamental change, but anti-revolutionary in the sense that they strive to bring about these changes by a never-ending organic adaptation. The movement that fulfils is the only true movement of conservation. In abnormal times - times when the errors of years and perhaps of generations have accumulated and can accumulate no more - this conflict breaks out in violence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.