All 50 Uses of

socialism

in

The Jungle by Sinclair

Grandmother Majauszkiene was a socialist, or some such strange thing; another son of hers was working in the mines of Siberia, and the old lady herself had made speeches in her time—which made her seem all the more terrible to her present auditors.†
Chpt 6

They were the Socialists; and it was a devil of a mess, said "Bush" Harper.†
Chpt 25

The one image which the word "Socialist" brought to Jurgis was of poor little Tamoszius Kuszleika, who had called himself one, and would go out with a couple of other men and a soap-box, and shout himself hoarse on a street corner Saturday nights.†
Chpt 25

Tamoszius had tried to explain to Jurgis what it was all about, but Jurgis, who was not of an imaginative turn, had never quire got it straight; at present he was content with his companion's explanation that the Socialists were the enemies of American institutions—could not be bought, and would not combine or make any sort of a "dicker."†
Chpt 25

Mike Scully was very much worried over the opportunity which his last deal gave to them—the stockyards Democrats were furious at the idea of a rich capitalist for their candidate, and while they were changing they might possibly conclude that a Socialist firebrand was preferable to a Republican bum.†
Chpt 25

"You want to know more about Socialism?" he asked.†
Chpt 29

Is it Socialism?†
Chpt 29

"You want to know about Socialism?" he said.†
Chpt 29

That was the competitive wage system; and if Jurgis wanted to understand what Socialism was, it was there he had best begin.†
Chpt 29

Every Socialist did his share, and lived upon the vision of the "good time coming,"—when the working class should go to the polls and seize the powers of government, and put an end to private property in the means of production.†
Chpt 29

No matter how poor a man was, or how much he suffered, he could never be really unhappy while he knew of that future; even if he did not live to see it himself, his children would, and, to a Socialist, the victory of his class was his victory.†
Chpt 29

Chicago was the industrial center of the country, and nowhere else were the unions so strong; but their organizations did the workers little good, for the employers were organized, also; and so the strikes generally failed, and as fast as the unions were broken up the men were coming over to the Socialists.†
Chpt 29

It published a weekly in English, and one each in Bohemian and German; also there was a monthly published in Chicago, and a cooperative publishing house, that issued a million and a half of Socialist books and pamphlets every year.†
Chpt 29

He had had more of his share of the fight, though, for just when Socialism had broken all its barriers and become the great political force of the empire, he had come to America, and begun all over again.†
Chpt 29

In America every one had laughed at the mere idea of Socialism then—in America all men were free.†
Chpt 29

That was always the way, said Ostrinski; when a man was first converted to Socialism he was like a crazy person—he could not' understand how others could fail to see it, and he expected to convert all the world the first week.†
Chpt 29

The Socialist party was a really democratic political organization—it was controlled absolutely by its own membership, and had no bosses.†
Chpt 29

You might say that there was really but one Socialist principle—that of "no compromise," which was the essence of the proletarian movement all over the world.†
Chpt 29

When a Socialist was elected to office he voted with old party legislators for any measure that was likely to be of help to the working class, but he never forgot that these concessions, whatever they might be, were trifles compared with the great purpose—the organizing of the working class for the revolution.†
Chpt 29

So far, the rule in America had been that one Socialist made another Socialist once every two years; and if they should maintain the same rate they would carry the country in 1912—though not all of them expected to succeed as quickly as that.†
Chpt 29

So far, the rule in America had been that one Socialist made another Socialist once every two years; and if they should maintain the same rate they would carry the country in 1912—though not all of them expected to succeed as quickly as that.†
Chpt 29

The Socialists were organized in every civilized nation; it was an international political party, said Ostrinski, the greatest the world had ever known.†
Chpt 29

It would not do, Ostrinski explained, for the proletariat of one nation to achieve the victory, for that nation would be crushed by the military power of the others; and so the Socialist movement was a world movement, an organization of all mankind to establish liberty and fraternity.†
Chpt 29

When Jurgis had made himself familiar with the Socialist literature, as he would very quickly, he would get glimpses of the Beef Trust from all sorts of aspects, and he would find it everywhere the same; it was the incarnation of blind and insensate Greed.†
Chpt 29

The people were tremendously stirred up over its encroachments, but nobody had any remedy to suggest; it was the task of Socialists to teach and organize them, and prepare them for the time when they were to seize the huge machine called the Beef Trust, and use it to produce food for human beings and not to heap up fortunes for a band of pirates.†
Chpt 29

Jurgis was destined to find that Elzbieta's armor was absolutely impervious to Socialism.†
Chpt 30

A wonderfully wise little woman was Elzbieta; she could think as quickly as a hunted rabbit, and in half an hour she had chosen her life-attitude to the Socialist movement.†
Chpt 30

I didn't sleep all last night because I had discharged a good Socialist!"†
Chpt 30

He was the kindest-hearted man that ever lived, and the liveliest—inexhaustible in his enthusiasm, and talking Socialism all day and all night.†
Chpt 30

" He had one unfailing remedy for all the evils of this world, and he preached it to every one; no matter whether the person's trouble was failure in business, or dyspepsia, or a quarrelsome mother-in-law, a twinkle would come into his eyes and he would say, "You know what to do about it—vote the Socialist ticket!"†
Chpt 30

He had published a pamphlet about it, and set out to organize a party of his own, when a stray Socialist leaflet had revealed to him that others had been ahead of him.†
Chpt 30

Now for eight years he had been fighting for the party, anywhere, everywhere—whether it was a G.A.R. reunion, or a hotel-keepers' convention, or an Afro-American businessmen's banquet, or a Bible society picnic, Tommy Hinds would manage to get himself invited to explain the relations of Socialism to the subject in hand.†
Chpt 30

After that he would start off upon a tour of his own, ending at some place between New York and Oregon; and when he came back from there, he would go out to organize new locals for the state committee; and finally he would come home to rest—and talk Socialism in Chicago.†
Chpt 30

He had no money for carfare, but it was harvesttime, and they walked one day and worked the next; and so Adams got at last to Chicago, and joined the Socialist party.†
Chpt 30

And then the hotel-keeper would go on to show how the Socialists had the only real remedy for such evils, how they alone "meant business" with the Beef Trust.†
Chpt 30

"If you were a Socialist," the hotelkeeper would say, "you would understand that the power which really governs the United States today is the Railroad Trust.†
Chpt 30

That he had a score of Socialist arguments chasing through his brain in the meantime did not interfere with this; on the contrary, Jurgis scrubbed the spittoons and polished the banisters all the more vehemently because at the same time he was wrestling inwardly with an imaginary recalcitrant.†
Chpt 30

He met some neighbors with whom Elzbieta had made friends in her neighborhood, and he set out to make Socialists of them by wholesale, and several times he all but got into a fight.†
Chpt 30

…devil who had worked in one shop for the last thirty years, and had never been able to save a penny; who left home every morning at six o'clock, to go and tend a machine, and come back at night too tired to take his clothes off; who had never had a week's vacation in his life, had never traveled, never had an adventure, never learned anything, never hoped anything—and when you started to tell him about Socialism he would sniff and say, "I'm not interested in that—I'm an individualist!"†
Chpt 30

And then he would go on to tell you that Socialism was "paternalism," and that if it ever had its way the world would stop progressing.†
Chpt 30

Then at night, when he could get off, Jurgis would attend the Socialist meetings.†
Chpt 30

And then there was one who was known at the "millionaire Socialist."†
Chpt 30

He was a quiet-mannered man, whom you would have taken for anything in the world but a Socialist agitator.†
Chpt 30

The workers were simply the citizens of industry, and the Socialist movement was the expression of their will to survive.†
Chpt 30

The president of the union came out of his cell a ruined man; but also he came out a Socialist; and now for just ten years he had been traveling up and down the country, standing face to face with the people, and pleading with them for justice.†
Chpt 30

About twelve years previously a Colorado real-estate speculator had made up his mind that it was wrong to gamble in the necessities of life of human beings: and so he had retired and begun the publication of a Socialist weekly.†
Chpt 30

He was a prominent opponent of Socialism, which he said would break up the home!†
Chpt 30

In a certain city of the country it had over forty of its "Army" in the headquarters of the Telegraph Trust, and no message of importance to Socialists ever went through that a copy of it did not go to the "Appeal."†
Chpt 30

The Socialists were literally sweeping everything before them that election, and Scully and the Cook County machine were at their wits' end for an "issue."†
Chpt 30

This meeting they advertised extensively, and the Socialists advertised it too—with the result that about a thousand of them were on hand that evening.†
Chpt 30

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an economic system based on government ownership or control of all important companies -- with the ideal of equal benefits to all people

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