Excerpt from A Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain This book had its origin in a request transmitted by M.Camille Huysmans, the accomplished Secretary of the International Socialist Bureau, to all the constituent bodies of the International Socialist Congress, that they should furnish, for submission to the Congress, reports upon the "socialisation" of industries and services, and upon the constitution that should be adopted by any nation desirous of organising its life upon Socialist principles. Great changes are everywhere at hand. Whilst every nation of advanced industrialism has been, in the present century, finding itself increasingly driven to measures of Socialist character, over a large part of Europe definitely Socialist administrations are actually in office, and the principles of Socialism are avowedly accepted as the basis of social and economic reconstruction. Open-minded students in every nation are watching the projects and the experiments of the other nations, in order to learn what is likely to be successful in their own. It believes those who take part in the Labour and Socialist Movements of the various countries to think out, in some detail, the shape which their proposals should assume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.