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Marx declared that under a system of the private ownership of the means of production and distribution, in which goods are produced for profit, and wherein men and groups and nations are compelled to compete for markets, and sources of raw material, and spheres of influence, the world would be forced into in­ creasing unemployment, poverty, crime, suffering and wars. Volume I, entitled "The Process of Capitalist knots in which previous writers had become en­ Production," is practically complete in itself. tangled. 618 pages, $2.50. It explains the thing which up to the time that Volume III, in some respects the most inter­ Marx came on the scene, had confused all the esting of all, treats of "The Process of Capital­ economists, namely, Surplus Value. It ex­ ist Production as a Whole." Predicts the rise plains exactly how the capitalist extracts his of Trusts and makes clear the cause of panics, profit. 869 pages, $2.50. industrial crises and wars. Explains the in­ Volume IT, "The -Process of Circulation of evitability of the downfall of capitalism because Capital," explains the part that the merchant of the contradiction inherent in the system and the banker play in the present system and itself. Covers the subjects of land, rent and the laws that govern social capital. Unravels farming. 1048 pages, $2.50. The set of three volumes, $7.50 postpaid. Ask lor OUT new Book Catalog CHARLES H. KERR & COMPANY 339 East Ohio Street, ChIcago THE LIBERATOR, a monthly magazine, February, 1920. Twenty-five cents a copy, $2.50 a year. Vol. 3, No.2, Serial No. 23. P.b­ llshed by The Liberator Publishing Co., 34 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Application pending for entry as second-class matter at tile post office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright. 1920. Boardman Robinsun The Sailing of the Buford THE LIBERATOR Vol. .3." No. 2 [Serial No. 23J February" 1920' To those who sailed away on the Buford, our national EDITORIALS worship of liberty and due process of law has long BY MAX EASTMAN. had a hollow sound. Most of them were not anarchists, many of them were not even revolutionists; some were HE sailing from New York harbor of the "Soviet veterans of the war' for democracy; one at least had T Ark," containing deported European workingmen, never heard of Alexander Berkman. But it is safe to is one of those events which signalize the passing of a say that they were all completely disillusioned of the period in history. This might be described as the period dream of liberty and opportunity which brought th,em o()£ the Myth ·0f American Freedom. It is true that a here; and had they been treated with decent regard for . great forwarcd step was taken by our republic in the their rights as human beings and members of families, .abolition of kings and the feudal nobility; indeed the had they been supplied with adequate clothing and pro­ wealth of unoccupied land and unseized opportunity visions for their first days in a strange, cold and starving created almost a real or economic freedom in our earliest country, there would have been little dismay or surprise ,days.

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