Socialism Versus The State is a book written by Emile Vandervelde in 1919. Vandervelde was a prominent Belgian socialist and a member of the Second International, a global organization of socialist and labor parties. In this book, Vandervelde argues that socialism is incompatible with the state, and that the state must eventually be abolished in order to achieve true socialism.Vandervelde begins by examining the origins of the state, arguing that...