Show GERMAN1 SOCIALISM Socialism has been accused of aiming at the oppression of personal liberty writes Herr Wilhelm Llebneclit in the February Forum Xow I beg of you to look at our programme and you will see that every paint of it Is a striking refutation of this childish reproach re-proach What do we ask for Absolute Abso-lute liberty of the press absolute liberty lib-erty of religion universal suffrage for all representative bodies and public offices of-fices in the state and the commune fce national education all schools open tai t-ai the same opportunities of learning and education for all abolition of the standing armies and creation of national na-tional militia so that e r citizen is soldier and every soldier citizen an international in-ternational count of arbitration between be-tween the different states equal rights for men and women measures for the protection of the working classes limitation lim-itation of the hours of work sanitary regulations etc Can personal liberty can the right of the individual be better II bet-ter guaranteed than by this pro fframm0 And can any honest democrat I demo-crat find fault with this programme Far from intending to suppress personal per-sonal liberty we have the full right to say that we are the sole party in Germany Ger-many that lights for the principles of the democracy |