Communism in America;
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879. Excerpt: ... Marx and Lassalle are familiar names in both continents. The influence, especially of Ferdinand Lassalle, the great prophet of Socialism, exercises almost undisputed sway over a large body ...
MoreThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879. Excerpt: ... Marx and Lassalle are familiar names in both continents. The influence, especially of Ferdinand Lassalle, the great prophet of Socialism, exercises almost undisputed sway over a large body of devout followers scattered throughout Geimany and America, whose watchful zeal and missionary ardor make up the main strength of the socialistic movement. This position of dominance is hardly rivaled even by that of Karl Marx.1 The strange terminology of the latter, and his abstruse encounters with the economists, make the reading of his longer treatises, such as his famous "Kapital," a matter of painful industry, and remove him farther from the appreciation of the ordinary man. His objects of attack and his plans for the future organization of the State are, in the main, co-ordinate with those of Lassalle; the principal differences between the two being in their immediate introductory purposes. The features which particularly distinguish the Marx movement are--the emphasis which it lays upon the necessity of international co-operation, uniting in an international organization the efforts of the workingmen of LASSALLE. 51 1 Karl Marx, born May 2, 1818, at Trier; the son of a royal Prussian Oberbergrath; studied law at Bonn; married a sister of herr Von Westphalen, a member of the Manteuffel Ministry. His studies led him into extreme Socialism. He renounced the diplomatic career, which was open to him, became a fugitive from Germany in 1849, and has since resided in London. "Das Kapital," his most important work, was published in 1867. all nations, and its encouragement of strikes and trades-unions. Lassalle's movement was strictly national. It may be said, too, that there is more virus in the unscrupulous revolutionary spirit of Marx than in Lassalle's reliance upon ...
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