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WOMAN AND SOCIALISM

or reject motherhood as her instincts incline her, can we look for the best and fullest development of the human race. Do not mistake this for an attack upon the home, which the capitalists are continually telling you the Socialists mean to destroy. It is rather a plea for the establishment and preservation of the home in its most perfect form. The home without love is a hell. And love can never come to its fullest and most beautiful fruitage until woman is free.

Imagine, if you can, a society where each individual has the opportunity to develop himself or herself to the fullest degree; where the miseries of poverty, child labor and female labor do not exist; where co-operation takes the place of competition; where the brotherhood and sisterhood of man and woman is a reality; where peace and equity abide, and there you will have Socialism.

Unite, and speed the day, comrades. when this shall be brought about! Speed the day!