Excerpt from Australian Socialism: An Historical Sketch of Its Origin and Developments The economic issues involved in the platform of Australian Socialism have been repeatedly investigated. This work is mainly confined to the history of the political events by which Socialism was enabled to play such an important part in the political history of Australia, more especially in the years following the inauguration of the Commonwealth. the author desires to show: (1) That Socialism received its original impulse in Australia through the powerful personality and brilliant propaganda of William Lane, a journalist in the State of Queensland. (2) That the original impetus and impress which he gave to the Labour party in Australia, of which in the historic sense he was the founder, were identical on their economic side with the Socialism of Continental Europe. (3) That the ideals of Bellamy, Marx, Engels, and of other European Socialistic writers, were and are still the ideals (now called the "Objective") of the Australian Labour party. 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.