Socialism

Socialism: What a beautiful idea! Yes, I admit, that sounds strange to us. I re­member that many years ago we would sometimes say regarding a very bad fellow: Hij is een leelijke, rooie socialist! (He is an ugly, red socialist!) How is it possible then that we dare to say: Social­ism is a beautiful idea? And the answer is that the reprobate world often uses beautiful words to denote their own hellish con­ceptions of things. And that is also true about the word 'socialism'. The proper...