Images of Fraternity

In the gloom of present-day politics, socialists may well lose themselves in nostalgic dreams of fraternity. We feel hemmed in by a world of self-interest, and we experience the daily weakening of those bonds of class and community that gave the socialist movement so much of its strength. The world we now inhabit seems markedly individualistic; we cast around in trepidation for some surviving signs of collective feeling. We talk forlornly of the old back-to-backs [row houses] with their bustl...