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The Communist Manifesto, by Marx Cohen. and Engds; Also, No Compromise, A practical, simply-written manual of Socialist No Political Trading, by Wilhelm theory by an American wage-worker who has educated himself in the literature of Socialism Liebknecht. and has in this book outlined some of the best The Communist Manifesto, first written in 1848, stands alone, towering above all other so­ methods of study. His leading topics are: The cial and political writings in any or all lan­ Socialist Indictment, Socialist Economics, The guages. It contains the first clearly formulated Class Struggle, l-Iistorical Materialism, Socialism statement of the new working-class philosophy and Science, Socialist Sociology, Socialist Phi­ of life and of social progress ever given to the losophy, Socialist Statesmanship. world. It sums up the principles under which 2. Socialism, Its Growth and Outcome, by an ever-growing army of more than thirty mil­ lion working men and women have risen in re­ William Morris and Ernest Belfort volt against a dying social order which is rotting Bax. to pieces. This is a book that you can read This book is by two of the ablest writers of through in two hours, but you can come back t.:> modern times. The late William Morris was a: it fifty times, and at every reading you will learn the time of his death the greatest of English more and more. NO COMPROMISE is by poets, and was also the foremost English writer Liebknecht, a grand old fi~hter who did much of on Socialism. His collaborator, Bax, is one of his writing behind Prusstan prison-bars. This the most brilliant essayists in the English-speak­ book contains a much-needed warning to Social­ ing world. The present volume is not only ists all over the world to keep their movement charmingly written and full of interest from free from entangling alliances with capitalistic cover to cover; it also contains 244 p~es closely reformers. packed with the most vital facts relatmg to th~ development of human society from the cave 5. Socialism, Utopian and Scientific, by man to the billionaire and the wage slave. It is Frederick Engels. a thrilling history of the human race, ending This author shares with Marx the first rank with an inspiring sketch of the future society for among Socialist writers ; the two were close which Socialists are hoping and working. friends and co-workers, and although Engels al­ ways conceded the first place to Marx, his own 3. The Class Struggle, by Karl Kautsky. writings are scarcely less valuable. The present Kautsky is today the leading Socialist wtiter work explains and enforces a distinction which of Germany, and his writings are more generally the new convert to Socialism MUST grasp be­ accepted by Socialists of all shades of opinion fore he can be of any use in the movement. all over the world than are the books of any It is that all schemes for reconstructing society other living writer. The German title of this according to a pre-arranged plan by the har­ work is the "Erfurt Program." It is an explana­ monious efforts of all classes of society are tion of, and ariUment for, a declaration of prin­ UTOPIAN; they will come to nothing and they ciples adopted some years ago at Erfurt by the have nothing to do with the modern SCIEN­ Socialist Party of Germany,-a declaration TIFIC Socialism, which is based on the Oaas which is substantially the same as those en­ Struggle. dorsed by the Socialist Parties of America and of the various European countries today. The 6. The Social Revolution, by Karl Kaut­ book is divided into five sections : The Passing sky. of Small Production, The Proletariat, The Cap­ This book is in two parts. The first of these, italist Class. The Commonwealth of the Future, "Reform and Revolution," explains why it is The CJaas Struale. that Socialists call thems~ves revolutionists and Digitized by Coogle 66 LIBRARY OF SOCIALIST CLASSICS . have no use for reforms. The second part, "The 11 . The Origin of the Family, Private Day After the Revolution," answers many of Property and the State, by Frederick the questions constantly being asked as to holt the Socialists would carry on industry and regu­ Engels. late social activities if they came into power. An American scientist, Lewis H. Morgan, through twenty years and more of original re­ 7. The Right to Be Lazy and Other search into the customs of the Iroquois Indians, Studies, by Paul Lafargue. discovered a mass of vitally important facts · 'f,bis writer, the son-in-law of . Karl M.arx, throwing a flood of light on the early history of recently deceased, was the most brilliant ~cialist our own race. These facts were so revolution­ writer of France. The opening essay in this vol­ ary. so subversive of "respectable" ideas, that ume is a keen satire on the stupid workingmen they were slow to be recognized at home (al­ who allow their minds to be infected with the though Morgan's theories are by this time uni­ capitalistic notion that industry is something versally accepted by scientists) . But one of the beautiful and desirable for its own sake. H~ first to grasp the truth and significance of Mor­ shows that if they were intelligent they would gan's work was Engels, the German Socialist, demand not "the right to work," but the right and he summed up Morgan's facts in popular. to be lazy, that is, to enjoy the comforts of life readable style in the present volume. In it with no more labor than that really needed for among other things he shows that the position producing them. Other studies in this volume of woman at any time and place depends on the are "Socialism and the Intellectuals," "The Bank­ mode of production, that woman's social posi­ ruptcy of Capitalism," "The Woman Question," tion has been repeatedly changed and will b.e "The Socialist Ideal" and "The Rights of the changed again by economic: changes, and that the Horse and the Rights of Man." overthrow of the capitalists, and nothing les~ 8. Evolution, Social and Organic, by Ar­ than this, will give woman the freedom she de· mands. Catholics denounce this book of Engels thur M. Lewis. as "free love." Study it for yourself and draw For some five years, a large audience, made your own conclusions. up almost entirely of wage-workers. has filled one of the largest theaters of Chicago every Sun­ 12. Value, Price and Profit, by Karl Marx. day afternoon, to listen to a weekly lecture on "Surplus Value" is one of the foundation prin­ Socialism or some kindred sbbjec:t. The lecturer ciples of Socialism; until you have at least a is Arthur M. Lewis, and this volume contains fairly clear understanding of this, the less talk the substance of the first season's lectures, which ing you do the better for the movement. For a attracted the crowds and laid the foundations for thorough and complete understanding of this the permanent success of the lectures. In thi.; rather difficult subject it is necessary to go to volume he traces the growth of the theory of Marx's "Capital," a work of over 2,500 pages, evolution from its fore-shadowing In the writings which sells for $6.00. But for the ordinary of the early Greek philosophers down to Dar­ reader this short work by the great writer will win, Haeckel and Spencer, and also shows how suffice unless the reader desires to become a the working-class theories of social evolution public speaker or writer.