Title Should socialism prevail? A debate held October 21, 1915, Brooklyn, New York, under the auspices of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, subject: - Resolved, that socialism ought to prevail in the United States. Affirmative: Professor Scott Nearing, Mr. Morris Hillquit; negative: Rev. Dr. John L. Belford, Professor Frederick M. Davenport; J. Herbert Lowe, chairman. Ed. by William M. Feigenbaum.