Fightback

In his fifth lecture our reverend critic simply refurbishes and places upon exhibition all the individual opinions of individual Socialists he can find antagonistic to religion, and tells us that their individual opinions are orthodox Socialist doctrines.

The old pagan idea that the state is everything and owns everything, so as to leave the individual man without any right except such as is conceded to him by the state – that old pagan idea has been adopted by the socialist. That idea is distinctly contrary to natural law as well as to the law of Christ

 Most scientific Socialists appear to follow Karl Marx in his theory that economic forces alone determine the evolution of all else in the world.

The Rights of Man is a doctrine popularised by the bourgeois (capitalist) philosophers of the eighteenth century, and has no place in Socialist literature. Although Father Kane is kind enough to credit Socialism with the doctrine, it is in reality the child of that capitalist class he is defending,