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“Modern Socialism” by R. C. K. Ensor (Harper, London: 1910) gives you access to some key Party platforms, speeches, documents etc. The book is now out of copyright and was digitised (photographically) by Microsoft in 2007.

The book is available on-line from the University of Pennsylvania:

• http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Ensor%2C%20R%2E%20C%2E%20K%2E%20%28Robert%20Charles%20Kirkwood%29%2C%201877%2D1958

You can download it in PDF format:

• https://ia800203.us.archive.org/25/items/modernsocialisma00ensouoft/modernsocialisma00ensouoft.pdf

It includes the objects and programs of the

• Social Democratic Federation, 
• Independent Labour Party,
• Fabian Society 

For comparison, it includes the object and programs for continental parties: the German, Austrian and Belgian Social Democratic Parties; the French Socialist Party.

It is a pitiable spectacle indeed to compare what these self-styled “socialist” parties claimed to have stood for then and what their descendant parties claim to stand for now against the forever-current Oject and Declaration of Principles of the World Socialist Parties (SPGB, etc.) we stood for then and stand for now.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by twc.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by twc.