What is the feeling behind the declaration that the old
order is done with, and that there will be no attempts to
patch it up, and that an entirely "New Social Order" must
replace it? Mainly that mere improvement of the material
condition of the workers, leaving unchanged their moral
status as a servile class, will not suffice. The re-assertion of
egalitarian ideas. The imponderabilia in the motive forces
of Labour Politics. Why are some Socialists lukewarm to-
wards or hostile to the war? The emergence of reactionary
forces in war time. State Socialism not synonymous with
Freedom: nor with Peace. Will a more socialized order
necessarily make for a warless world? The relation of
Socialism to internationalism.

THE Programme of the British Labour Party says:

"The view of the Labour Party is that what has
to be reconstructed after the war is not this or that
government department, or this or that piece of
social machinery; but so far as Britain is concerned,
Society itself. . . . We of the Labour Party recog-
nize, in the present world catastrophe . . . the cul-
mination and collapse of a distinctive industrial civil-
ization, which the workers will not seek to recon-
struct. . . . On the contrary we shall do our utmost
to see that it is buried with the millions whom it has

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