no 



to be socialism ; it means simply that social- 

 ism lives on contradictions."! 



When socialism, in assuring to each the 

 means of living, claims that it will permit the 

 affirmation and development of all individu- 

 alities, it does not fall into a contradiction of 

 principles, but being the next phase of human 

 civilisation, it cannot suppress or efface what 

 there is in the preceding phases that is 

 vital, that is to say, what is compatible with 

 the new social form. And so socialistic inter- 

 nationalism is not in contradiction with the 

 existence of One's country because it recog- 

 nises what is true in it, and only eliminates 

 the pathological part, the chauvinism ; and in 

 the same way socialism does not live on con- 

 tradiction, but, on the contrary, it follows the 

 fundamental laws of natural evolution if it 

 develops and preserves the vital part of 

 individualism, and if it only suppresses the 

 pathological manifestations which bring to 

 pass in the modern world, as Prampolini said, 

 that 90 per cent, of the cells of the social 

 organisation are condemned to anaemia, 

 because 10 per cent, are sick of hyperaemia 

 and hypertrophy. 



a socialist regime, that is, without the friction and loss 

 of force brought about by capitalist individualism, it is 

 evident that they will have immense material and moral 

 advantages despite the d priori objections of the present 

 individualism which does not know how to observe, or 

 which forgets the profound reflex effects of, a change of 

 social environment on individual psychology. 



t Icilio Vanni, " La Funzione pratica della filosofia 

 del diritto considerata in se e in rapporto al socialismo 

 contemporaneo." Bologna, 1894. 



