This interest is more obvious in literature perhaps than in anything else, quite outside the propagandist tracts issued by definitely Socialist societies. Whereas at present it is fashionable for even West-end dinner-parties to affect an interest in and knowledge of it, which indicates a wide and deep public interest. This is true six or seven years ago the word Socialism was known in this country, but few even among the ‘educated’ classes knew more about its meaning than Mr Bradlaugh, Mr Gladstone, or Admiral Maxse know now - i e., nothing. We often hear it said that the signs of the spread of Socialism among English-speaking people are both abundant and striking. Source: “'Looking Backward'” Commonweal, Vol 5, No.
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