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‎Socialism.‎

‎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).‎

‎Victor Considerant and the Rise and Fall of French Romantic Socialism‎

‎de Gruyter 2000 600 pages 16 26x4 65x23 7cm. 2000. Cartonné jaquette. 600 pages. Cette biographie de Jonathan Beecher retrace la vie et l'œuvre de Victor Considerant disciple de Charles Fourier et figure centrale du socialisme romantique français des années 1840. L'ouvrage analyse à la fois son parcours intellectuel et politique et retrace l'essor et le déclin de ce courant socialiste utopique‎

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‎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

‎Þróun jafnaðarstefnunnar draumsýn verður að vísindum [i.e. Icelandic ""The development of social policy: a dream becomes a science""] - [FIRST ICELANDIC ""SOCIALISM""]‎

‎Akureyri, Jafnaðarmannafélag [i.e. Icelandic: ""the Socialist association""] Akureyrar, 1928 8vo. (130 x 192 mm). Uncut in the original printed red wrappers with a bit of wear to edges and a newer, simple paper spine. A couple of notes in light pencil, otherwise clean and fresh. 79 pp.‎

‎Exceedingly scarce first edition of the first Icelandic translation of Engels' impactful work Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, referred to by Hunt as ""the Bible of global communism"" (2009: 3). With this influential pamphlet, Engels set out to make the definitive introduction to scientific socialism. Basing it on the three chapters from his book Herrn Eugen Dühring's Umwälzung der Wissenschaft (1878) – also known as Anti-Dühring – 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 (1842-1911), Karls Marx' son-in-law, to translate the work into French and add some extra remarks. Anti-Dühring had been serialized in a German newspaper between 1877 and 1878 as a polemical response to the works of Eugen Dühring (1833-1921) – a philosophy lecturer at the University of Berlin, whose brand of socialism was making significant inroads into German social democracy. He criticized Marx and Engel's centralism and economic determinism, while proposing a gradualist political programme (Hunt 2009: 295). Engels' response ""went beyond the usual Marx-Engels invective into a broader definition and defence 'of the dialectical method and the communist world outlook' [...]. All of Engel's great gifts as a propagandist and popularizer were on display as he countered the allure of Dühring with a pacey, engaging and comprehensible explanation of the science of Marxism"" (Hunt 2009: 296). The reception of the pamphlet was a success: Engels ""proudly described it making a 'regular revolution' and 'tremendous impression' in France."" (2009: 300) As the French translation proved to be extremely popular and gained a widespread audience, Engels considered it important to translate it into other languages as well, turning it into a veritable propaganda pamphlet. Indeed, the work became extremely popular and was translated into numerous languages, exercising profound influence upon the theory of socialism throughout Europe.OCLC locates merely two copies in libraries worldwide, both being in Denmark. References and further reading: Gissurarson, Hannes Hólmsteinn. (2021). Communism in Iceland, 1918–1998. Reykjavik: Social Science Research Institute at the University of Iceland. (tilføjes 63244) The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels. London: Allen Lane.Guðmundsson, Steinþór. (1928). Fr. Engels. Þróun jafnaðarstefnunnar. Rjettur: Tímarit um þjóðfelags- og menningarmál , 13. árg. 1928, 1. hefti, pp. 125.26. https://timarit.is/page/4089270#page/n122/mode/2up‎

‎Karl Forlender Kant and Marx: Essays on Ethical Socialism. 1909./Karl Forlender‎

‎"Karl Forlender Kant and Marx: Essays on Ethical Socialism. 1909./Karl Forlender Kant i Marks. Ocherki eticheskogo sotsializma. 1909 god. Our Life, translated with permission from the author Elkin, with a foreword by M.I. Tugan-Baranovsky, St. Petersburg, 1909. The book examines, for example, the relationship between Kants teachings and K. Marxs; the ethical rationale for socialism, the Kant idea of the self-purpose of the human person; neo-Kantianism in socialism; and the philosophical and ethical position of modern socialism. 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. The delivery of this book might be delayed beyond the usual timeframe due to extended processing and preparation before shipment, and faster shipping options are not offered. Please inform us if you need the order by a certain date or have a deadline.SKUbd-93dbae51af97997f"‎