This was a nice article, especially since I'm a fan of his The Soul of Man Under Socialism, which I'm ashamed to say is the only work I've read by him. In parti

This was a nice article, especially since I'm a fan of his The Soul of Man Under Socialism, which I'm ashamed to say is the only work I've read by him. In particular, he stands in an odd relation to the other socialist thinkers of his era; Marx known as a thoroughly rational type who went to pains to avoid moral arguments save for the rhetorical devices he was known for even in personal correspondance and Kropotkin apparently seeing no issue with making such moral arguments to argue for socialism. Wilde's stance on morality and argumentation is thus different to both of them - eschewing the rigorous systematic critique of the capitalist system (as the production process of capital, Marx) while also departing from a familiar morality which, at least in their day (and to me even today) moved anyone to the socialist cause (Kropotkin).