The Soul of Man Under Socialism

In the Soul of Man Under Socialism, Oscar Wilde expounds on an anarchist world view.Wilde argues that under capitalism the majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism-are forced, indeed, so to spoil them: instead of realizing theirtrue talents, they waste their time solving the social problems caused by capitalism,without taking their common cause away.

Thus, caring people seriously and very sentimentallyset themselves to the task of remedying the evils that they see in poverty, but theirremedies do not cure the disease: they merely prolong it because, the proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.