{"id":213,"date":"2019-01-15T15:53:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T15:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsm.prolerat.org\/?page_id=213"},"modified":"2026-03-09T08:26:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:26:54","slug":"socialist-writers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/socialist-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialist Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-215\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/socwrite.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"104\"><\/p>\n<p>Socialism is not a new idea. It had been around before Marx and Engels and has since been advocated by many famous writers.  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/shelley-a-socialist-poet\/\">Shelley: A socialist poet<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>The Loathsome mask has fallen the man remains<\/p>\n<p>Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed, but man<\/p>\n<p>Equal, unclassed, tribeless and nationless,<\/p>\n<p>Exempt from awe, worship, degree, the king,<\/p>\n<p>Over himself, just, gentle, wise.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Prometheus Unbound<\/em> )<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/william-godwin-shelley-and-communism\/\">Godwin and <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/william-godwin-shelley-and-communism\/\">Political Justice<\/a><\/em>     <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Human beings are partakers of a common nature; what conduces to the benefit or pleasure<br \/>\n    of one man will conduce to the benefit or pleasure of another. Hence it follows, upon the<br \/>\n    principles of equal and impartial justice, that the good things of the world are a common<br \/>\n    stock, upon which one man has as valid a title as another to draw for what he wants. <\/p>\n<p><em>(Political Justice<\/em> )<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/william-morris-how-we-live-and-how-we-might-live\/\">William Morris: How we live and how we     might live<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Our business, I repeat, is the making of Socialists, i.e., convincing people that<br \/>\n    Socialism is good for them and is possible. When we have enough people of that way of<br \/>\n    thinking, they will find out what action is necessary for putting their principles into<br \/>\n    practice. Until we have that mass of opinion, action for a general change that will<br \/>\n    benefit the whole people is impossible <\/p>\n<p><em>(Where Are We Now?<\/em>, 1890, p. 226.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wilde-the-soul-of-man-under-socialism\/\">Oscar Wilde: The Soul of Man Under     Socialism<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Socialism, Communism, or whatever, one chooses to call it, by converting private<br \/>\n    property into public wealth, and substituting co-operation for competition, will restore<br \/>\n    society to its proper condition of a thoroughly healthy organism, and ensure the material<br \/>\n    well-being of each member of the community. <\/p>\n<p><em>(The Soul of Man Under Socialism<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/marcuse-professor-behind-1960s-rebellion\/\">Marcuse: Professor behind 1960s rebellion <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>What is denounced as utopian is no longer that which has no place and cannot have any<br \/>\n    place in the historical universe, but rather that which is blocked from coming about by<br \/>\n    the power of established societies.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>An Essay on Liberation<\/em>).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/rosa-luxemburg-and-the-national-question\/\">Luxemburg and the National Question <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/marx-and-socialism-a-critical-evaluation\/\">Marx and socialism: a critical evaluation <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socialism is not a new idea. 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