Max Beer,
Mr. Keir Hardie and the Unity of Labour
“ Socialism is not made, but it is growing out of the needs and struggles of organised Labour. The most simple Labour organisation fighting for higher wages, shorter hours, and better Labour laws does more for Socialism than all the Utopian books of Wells, all the Swiftian wit of Shaw, all the revolutionary speeches of Hyndman, and all the sentimental harangues of Grayson. ”
Max Beer,
Mr. Keir Hardie and the Unity of Labour
“ For what is the essence of modern Socialism as Marx taught it?—the political independence of Labour. And what is the foremost duty of a Socialist in the class struggle?—to divorce Labour from the parties of the possessing class. ”
Max Beer,
Mr. Keir Hardie and the Unity of Labour
“ As a close observer of the British Labour Movement, I regard the work of Hardie to be of a much more permanent value than that of Hyndman, Shaw, Blatchford, Wells, let alone Grayson. Of all British Socialists none, in my judgment, has grasped the essence of modern Socialism—aye, of Marxism—better than Hardie. Moreover, none has done in practice better work than Hardie. ”
