Abstract

Socialism and Communism in Their Practical Application

The article discusses the book "Socialism and Communism in Their Practical Application," by Reverend M. Kaufmann. The author's purpose, as stated by himself, is " to examine some of the most important experiments, made from time to time by social reformers, to realize in actual life their theories of social improvement." He describes religious and humanitarian endeavors for social regeneration upon the basis of common property as undertaken among the disciples of the early Christian Church, among the monastic orders of the pre-reformatory mystics, among the native converts under Jesuit rule in South America, among the Protestant Separatists seeking religious and civil liberty in the United States and among the anti-religious secularists.