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‎Socialisme utopique et socialisme scientifique. Traduction francaise par Paul Lafargue. - [THE INTRODUCTION TO SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM]‎

‎Paris, 1880. 8vo. Original printed green wrappers. Spine worn and to small nicks to back wrapper. A (vague) fold down the middle. Overall in excellent condition. 35 pp.‎

‎The rare first edition thus, being the scarce separate printing from Revue Socialiste, in excellent original condition, of Engel's highly popular Utopian Socialism and Scientific Socialism. With this influential pamphlet, Engels set out to make the definitive introduction to scientific socialism. Basing it on the three chapters from his book ""Herr Dühring's Revolution in Science"", he here wished to reproduce the most topical excerpt from the theoretical section of the book, that of strictly scientific socialism. Engels put them together himself and asked Paul Lafargue, Karls Marx' son-in-law, to translate the work into French and add some extra remarks. ""I put them together for my friend Paul Lafargue for translation into French and added a few extra remarks. The French translation revised by me appeared first in the Revue socialiste and then independently under the title: Socialisme utopique et socialisme scientifique, Paris, 1880."" (Engels, from the preface to the German translation, 1882). The French translation proved to be extremely popular and gained a widespread audience. So much so that Engels considered it important to translate it into other languages as well, turning it into a veritable propaganda pamphlet. ""The surprising success of the Lafargue translation in the Frenchspeaking countries and especially in France itself forced me to consider the question whether a separate German edition of these three chapters would not likewise be of value. Then the editors of the Zurich Sozialdemokrat informed me that a demand was generally being raised within the German Social-Democratic Party for the publication of new propaganda pamphlets, and they asked me whether I would not apply those three chapters to this purpose. I was naturally in agreement with that and put my work at their disposal. It was, however, not originally written for immediate popular propaganda. How could what was in the first place a purely scientific work be suitable for that, What changes in form and content were required?"" (Engels, from the preface to the German translation, 1882). From the original manuscript of the work, we know that Marx too was involved in the coming-to-be of this original pamphlet. The last page of the manuscript contains a postscript in Marx's handwriting: ""Dear Lafargue, here is the fruit of my consultation (of yesterday evening) with Engels. Polish the phrases, leaving the gist intact."" The three-page introduction to the work, which is written by Lafargue and signed P.L. at the end, is important in itself, as it gives an introduction to the history of Marx and Engels as the founders of socialism, culminating with the present pamphlet that epitomizes scientific socialism. Paul Lafargue (1841-1911), Karl Marx's son-in-law, was a leading member of the French socialist movement and played an important rôle in the development of the Spanish socialist movement. A close friend of Friedrich Engels in his later years, he wrote and spoke from a fairly orthodox Marxist perspective on a wide-range of topics including women's rights, anthropology, ethnology, reformism, Millerandism, and economics. The work became extremely popular and was translated into numerous languages, exercising profound influence upon the theory of socialism throughout Europe. ""At the request of my friend, Paul Lafargue, now representative of Lille in the French Chamber of Deputies, I arranged three chapters of this book as a pamphlet, which he translated and published in 1880, under the title: ""Socialisme utopique et Socialisme scientifique"". From this French text, a Polish and a Spanish edition were prepared. In 1883, our German friends brought out the pamphlet in the original language. Italian, Russian, Danish, Dutch, and Roumanian translations, based upon the German text, have since been published. Thus, the present English edition, this little book circulates in 10 languages. I am not aware that any other Socialist work, not even our Communist Manifesto of 1848, or Marx's Capital, has been so often translated. In Germany, it has had four editions of about 20,000 copies in all. (Englas in the preface to the English translation from 1892).‎

‎Political Economy for Socialism‎

‎Palgrave Macmillan 1995 260 pages in8. 1995. Broché. 260 pages.‎

‎Très Bon Etat de conservation intérieur propre bonne tenue légère ternissure sur le dernier plat‎

‎It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States (Norton Paperback)‎

‎Norton 2013 384 pages in8. 2013. Broché. 384 pages.‎

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‎N.N. Platoshkin Spring and Fall of Czechoslovak Socialism 1938-1968 Part 1. Spr‎

‎N.N. Platoshkin Spring and Fall of Czechoslovak Socialism 1938-1968 Part 1. Spring of Czechoslovak Socialism. 1938-1948 Part 2. Fall of Czechoslovak Socialism. 1948-1968 In Russian /Platoshkin N.N. Vesna i osen chekhoslovatskogo sotsializma v 1938 1968 gg. Ch. 1. Vesna chekhoslovatskogo sotsializma. 1938 1948 gg. Ch. 2. Osen chekhoslovatskogo sotsializma. 1948 1968 gg. In Russian.Series: Cold War by M. Russian Foundation for Promotion of Education and Science: Dmitry Pozharsky University, 2016. 470 and 576 (1046) p. The book by diplomat and scholar, doctor of historical sciences, Professor Nikolai Nikolaevich Platoshkin examines the history of Czech and Slovak socialism from 1938 to 1968 We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb92218bc9a37812f2‎

‎A New View of Society: Or Essays on the Principle of the Formnation of the Human Character, and the Application of the Principle to Practice. - [FOUNDING SOCIALISM]‎

‎London, 1813 (-1816). (Part I:) Cadell and Davies by Richard Taylor and Co., 1813 (Part II:) for Cadell and Davies, and Murray by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1813 (Parts III & IV:) (Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor), (1816). 8vo. Lovely contemporary full calf boards with blindstamped frames made of single lines and ornamental corner-pieces. Double gilt line-border to boards. Gilding on front board very vague. Ornamental blindstamped inner dentelles. Neatly rebacked in style of the boards, with gilt ornamentation ond gilt red morocco title-label. End-papers renewed. 24 (VI),39 pp." 1 f. (blank), 124 pp. Both half-titles to part III & IV included in the pagination. Some leaves evenly browned, but overall a very nice and clean copy (possibly washed). ‎

‎Very scarce edition of Owen’s seminal four-part work, which constitutes “The Birth of Socialism”, parts I & II being the first printings, and II & IV presumably the second editions (after the privately printed 1814-edition of both parts, which were for private circulation), later used for the 1816 overall second edition of all four parts together (which is continuously paginated, 184 pp. in all). The copy corresponds to Kress B6194, where it is listed first, and Goldsmiths' 20855. Goldsmiths' notes “The first and second essays have separate title-pages and pagination. The third and fourth essays each have a half-title, but their pagination is continuous. There are a number of textual alterations in this edition of the third and fourth essays, most of which were adopted for the 1816 edition.” Parts I & II have separate title-pages and are separately paginated. The title-page of part I does not mention Owen, but the dedication to Wilberforce is signed Robert Owen in print on p. IV. The title-page of part II reads: A new View of Society, or, Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character, and the Application of the Principle to Practice. Essay Second. By Robert Owen of New Lanark. Parts III & IV each have a half-title, both included in the pagination, which is continuous. The half-title of Part III reads: Essay Third. The Principles of the Former Essays Applied to a Particular Situation, and states on verso: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor. The half-title of Part IV reads: Essay Fourth. The Principles of the Former Essays Applied to Government. ""The theory of socialism has a long and distinguished history [...] the first practical statement of socialist doctrine came not from a theorist but from one who based it on practical experiment. Robert Owen became the manager of a cotton mill at the age of nineteen. He was brilliantly successful, not merely as a manager, but as an innovator, introducing the first imported cotton from America and improving the quality of the yarn. Before he was thirty he already had the experience, and the confidence born of it, to undertake his great experiment."" (PMM). Having bought a factory with some of the poorest and workers’ quarters in the country and worst working conditions, Owen began improving conditions in all ways possible, including housing, working hours, education for the children (he founded infant schools in Great Britain), limitation of drinking, and he opened a store, where they could buy goods close to cost price. ""'The Lanard Experiment' was a great success, and the mill ran a profit"" nevertheless, Owen’s partners were dissatisfied at the cost of his social schemes and he was forced to dissolve the partnership and form a new company, in which Jeremy Bentham and William Allen, the Quaker philanthropist, were partners. It was at this juncture that A New View of Society came out. In it Owen laid down the principles which had determined his experiment. Having no belief in any kind of religion, he had thought out a new system of beliefs for himself. The chief points were that man's character is made not by but for him and that it has been formed by circumstances over which he has no control. The prime necessity in the right formation of character is therefore to place him under proper physical, moral and social influences from the very beginning. These principles - the fundamental irresponsibility of man and the effect of good early influence - lie at the root of Owen's theories and his practice. New Lanark continued to show their efficacy, and it became a model community, much visited by the statesmen of Europe… [T]he vitality of the word “socialism”, first coined by Owen about 1835, is testimony to the enduring value of his work"" (PMM). PMM 271" Kress B6194 Goldsmiths' 20855‎