It does not seem too much to say that doubt
of the inevitability of Socialism is in all cases
a symptom of failure to apprehend clearly the

^ I trust that no one will construe this as an attack
on the Industrial Workers of the World. It is. not my
intention to express in this place any opinion as to the
merits or demerits of that organization. It is only
mentioned here because mention of it was necessary to
illustrate the most curious case I know of the abnormal-
ly prolonged retention of the Utopian tadpole tail.
KISMET

full implications of the Materialist Conception
of History..
The second question, If Socialism is inevitable,
why do Socialists work to bring it about ?, would
appear to have been answered by implication in
the course of our discussion of the first question.
In brief, we work for it because we know that
if we did not it would never come. It is in-
evitable simply because Socialists are inevitable.
