SOCIALISM IN ENGLAND. 
For good or for evil, England no longer enjoys an immunity 
from Socialism or socialistic propaganda. I do not allude to 
what has been called the socialistic tendency of recent legisla 
tion,* important as that tendency is as showing the growing 
confidence of democracy in officialism. I allude to more active 
and further reaching, if for the moment less effective, socialistic 
movements. There is, in the first place, the movement for the 
“ Nationalization of the Land,” which has recently received a 
great impetus from the writings of Mr. Henry George. Secondly, 
there is the movement of “ Christian Socialism,” which is to-day 
advancing far beyond what Maurice and Kingsley, who were the 
first to call themselves Christian Socialists, ever had in view. 
Finally, there is the out-and-out Collectivist agitation conducted 
by the members of the Social Democratic Federation, who may 
be looked upon as the disciples of Karl Marx in England.t 
There are, no doubt, some individual Anarchists in this country, 
but they are not an organized body. There is every reason to 
• Mr. Herbert Spencer, the great apostle of Individualism, has recently 
inveighed against this tendency in articles in the monthly reviews on the 
“New Toryism,” the “Coming Slavery,” etc. These articles have lx;en 
collected and published as a book : “The Man versus the State” (1884). 
A society also has been formed, called the Liberty and Property Defence 
League ^ “ for resisting over-legislation, for maintaining freedom of con 
tract and for advocating Individualism as opposed to Socialism, entirely 
irrespective of party politics.” Central offices, 4, Westminster Chambers. 
f Miss Eleanor Marx, one of the daughters of Karl Marx, is a prominent 
member of the Federation. She contributes to To-day, its monthly 
magazine, a “Record of the International Popular Movement.”