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this brief essay by author and college professor charles augustus eggert was published in california in 1913 as part of the collection why i am opposed to socialism: original papers by leading men and women. socialism was a popular and controversial theory at that time, four years before the russian revolution. no government had yet tried to put the theory of socialism into practice.

why i am opposed to socialism
by charles augustus eggert

i am opposed to socialism, first, because it is not an inductively obtained system, but an \ism\ that postulates qualities in the individuality of a nation which no nation, or community even, has yet developed to a sufficiently high state to make this \ism\ fit to be seriously tried.

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