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NEW AMERICAN MOVEMENT DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM
NAM: The Political Perspective
Chicago: New American Movement 1978. Eighth "printing" revised. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 24pp. Faint crease at upper corner else Near Fine. Revised version of NAM's political position statement originally adopted in 1972. Includes policy positions on Racism Sexism Gay Sexuality and Oppression Internationalism etc; along with theoretical statements on the nature of the working class and capitalism. NAM was one of several splinter groups to emerge from the dissolution of SDS in the early Seventies; in 1983 they merged with other groups to form the Democratic Socialists of America DSA. New American Movement unknown books
Bookseller reference : 50214
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SOCIALISM FRANCE MABLY Gabriel Bonnot de
De la Législation ou Principes des Loix
Lausanne: Société Typographique 1777. Second Edition. Two volumes in one; small 12mo 16cm.; slightly later paper-covered boards manuscript private library spine labels all edges speckled red; 2viii248; 2iv250pp. Spine a bit sunned corners bumped light spotting to boards tiny rubberstamps of a Donaueschingen library to both title page versos else a Near Fine internally fresh copy half titles present. First published one year prior in 1776. Both a critique and history of European inequality by the French philosopher deeply influenced by the works of John Locke. Described as an "avant-garde thinker of utopian socialism" Sophus Reinert and Steven Kaplan eds. "The Economic Turn" 2019 p. 339 the Abbé de Mably 1709-1785 roundly rejected any institution that could reduce the well-being of one in favor of another among these the concept of private property. Indeed in Chapter IV in the first volume states that it be necessary for legislation to "turn all its forces against avarice and ambition" p. 96 our translation. A life-long friend of Jean-Jacques Rousseau the underlining theme of the work consistently circles back to the concept of "Nature" in this case self-preservation at present undermined by the state of society. Société Typographique unknown books
Bookseller reference : 47694
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SOCIALISM JACKSON TA. T. A.
Dialectics: The Logic of Marxism and Its Critics--An Essay in Exploration
New York: International Publishers 1936. First American Edition. Octavo 22cm.; publisher's cloth in decorative dust jacket signed in image "Walker" red topstain; 648pp. A hint of shelf wear red jacket spine lettering sunned else a Near Fine copy. Layman's introduction to dialectical materialism as taught by Marx and Engels. See Egbert II p. 213 for the first London edition. International Publishers unknown books
Bookseller reference : 47771
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CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM SCUDDER Vida ed
The Social Preparation for the Kingdom of God. Official Organ of the Church Socialist League. Vol. V no. 1 January 1918
Utica: Church Socialist League 1918. Single orginal quarto issue in original wrappers; 24pp. Clean Near Fine copy. Uncommon Christian Socialist publication edited by Vida Scudder with contributions by Rev. Paul Jones Wells Weeks Lyford Edwads and others. Church Socialist League unknown books
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SOCIALISM GERMANY FISCHER Paul
Die Marx'sche Werththeorie zur Einführung in das Studium von Marx
Berlin: Expedition der Buchhandlung Vorwärts 1896. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's orange wrappers printed within typographically decorative border; 52pp.; text printed entirely in blackletter. Some shallow chipping to upper cover fore-edge not approaching text some light soil textblock uniformly toned else a Very Good copy internally clean and sound. At head of title: "Berliner Arbeiter-Bibliothek" IX. Heft. One of a series of educational Marxist pamphlets issued under the banner the "Berliner Arbeiter-Bibliothek" this introducing its readers to the theory of surplus value without having to wade through Marx's original text. Other titles in the series covered the benefits of unionism and labor protection legislation; provided a concise history of the Paris Commune; and included an edition of Bellamy's "Looking Backward. Expedition der Buchhandlung Vorwärts unknown books
Bookseller reference : 47650
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SOCIALISM ARBEITER RING
TITLE IN YIDDISH : 1910. Der Arbayt er Ring. Zamel bukh. Sov enier der tsehnt er yehrlikher k onv enshon gev idmet . Aroysgegeben fun Tsehnt en Yehrlikhen K onv enshon K onferents
New York: Arbeiter Ring aka Workmens Circle 1910. First Edition. Small octavo 18.5cm. Printed thick paper wrappers; 256 pp; 16 unnumbered leaves of plates; illus; portraits. Mild external rubbing and wear; text clean tight and unmarked - a Very Good copy. Text in Yiddish but for a few captions in English. Souvenir book and organizational history issued in conjunction with the tenth anniversary convention of Der Arbeiter Ring aka The Workmens Circle a Jewish-American labor association and mutual-aid society that formed following the massive waves of Yiddish immigration following the Russian and European pogroms of the Eighteen-eighties and Nineties. The Workmens Circle is still in existence as a Jewish cultural and liberal political organization but at the time of this publication the Circle's aims were essentially Marxist in line with those of the left wing of the American Socialist Party with which many of its members were closely affiliated. In keeping with the sense of accomplishment that the organization's members would have felt having survived both Russian pogroms and ten years in a New World barely more sympathetic to Jewish culture than the Old this souvenir book is rather elaborately produced with numerous halftone plates reproducing photographs and drawings as well as many illustrations in text. Arbeiter Ring [aka Workmens Circle] unknown books
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SOCIALISM WIIU DANNENBERG Karl ed
First of May Magazine. A Journal of Constructive Revolution 2 Annual Issues
Detroit / Troy: Literature Bureau of the Workers' International Industrial Union 1919 - 1923. First Edition. Quarto 30cm. Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 40pp; illus. Issue for 1919 in clean unmarked condition Very Good or better. Issue for 1923 worn with wrappers darkened and stained contents slightly age-toned with corner-creases and occasional thumb-soil; complete and just Good. Annual souvenir of the Workers' International Industrial Union. The WIIU the labor union arm of the Socialist Labor Party was effectively formed in 1908 following the split of the SLP faction from the Industrial Workers of the World; the group identified itself as the 'Detroit IWW' until 1915 at which point the name was changed to Workers International Industrial Union a typically De Leonist mouthful!. The WIIU never throve; its membership probably never numbered above about 2500 workers a number that dropped quickly following the death of Daniel De Leon in 1915. By the 1920s the WIIU was an afterthought and the group was finally disbanded in 1925.<br/><br/>Contents include articles by Michael Altschuler Herman Richter W.J. Dodge Henry Kuhn and others; literary contributions by Samuel French Fred H. Hartmann Richard Le Galienne William Morris and Walt Whitman; portraits and reproductions of artworks by Eugene Higgins Jan Styka and Eugene Chaperon. An attractive and rather uncommon American labor souvenir book; OCLC notes 6 physical locations for any issue 2018; the 1923 issue printed on clearly inferior paper probably a reflection of the Union's impending demise appears to be in the catalogue of only a single OCLC member institution NYPL. Literature Bureau of the Workers' International Industrial Union unknown books
Bookseller reference : 43046
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SOCIALISM HITCHCOCK Roswell D.
Socialism
New York: Anson D.F. Randolph & Company 1879. First Edition. 12mo 19cm.; publisher's light blue-grey decorative cloth embossed in black and gilt blue floral endpapers; 111pp. Extremities a bit worn with brief loss of cloth at spine ends corners bumped light soil spine a bit cocked else Good to Very Good overall. Virulently anti-socialist and -communist piece by the Congregationalist clergyman arguing that "To-day there is not in our language nor in any language a more hateful word than Communism.it meant and still means wages without work arson assassination anarchy" p. 24. An anonymously published response "A Reply to Roswell D. Hitchcock D.D. on Socialism" would be published the same year. Neither title appears in Egbert. Anson D.F. Randolph & Company unknown books
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SOCIALISM KARSNER David
Talks With Debs in Terre Haute and Letters from Lindlahr Inscribed
New York: The New York Call 1922. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 18cm; pale blue vertically-ribbed cloth with printed title labels on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 2213pp with photographic frontispiece portrait of Debs. Warmly inscribed by Karsner to author and drama critic Walter Prichard Eaton on the front endpaper: "For Walter Prichard Eaton whose pen is true whose heart is warm whose hand is fraternal / From David Karsner / New York / January 20 1923." Light wear to spine ends touch of dust-soil to upper edge of textblock else Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket lightly dusty with some mild external wear and a few tiny losses to spine ends. A journal kept by Karsner while assisting Debs in the preparation of a series of articles after his release from prison. "Before leaving New York the thought occurred to me to keey a diary while with Debs but I soon discovered that this scheme was scarcely possible because of the pressure of work upon me. Still I was reluctant to neglect the opportunity to portray Debs to the public through his spoken word so I yielded to my desire to jot down notes of our talks and to record incidents in our daily contact for thirty days - the time required to complete his dozen or more prison articles" p.10. Scarce in dustjacket. The New York Call unknown books
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SOCIALISM WIIU DANNENBERG Karl ed
First of May Magazine. A Journal of Constructive Revolution 1919
Detroit: Literature Bureau of the Workers' International Industrial Union 1919. First Edition. Quarto 30cm. Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 40pp; illus. Issue for 1919 ; slightly worn with wrappers darkened and stained contents slightly age-toned with corner-creases and occasional thumb-soil; Just Good. Hand-stamp of the SLP / Detroit to front cover. Annual souvenir of the Workers' International Industrial Union. The WIIU the labor union arm of the Socialist Labor Party was effectively formed in 1908 following the split of the SLP faction from the Industrial Workers of the World; the group identified itself as the 'Detroit IWW' until 1915 at which point the name was changed to Workers International Industrial Union a typically De Leonist mouthful!. The WIIU never throve; its membership probably never numbered above about 2500 workers a number that dropped quickly following the death of Daniel De Leon in 1915. By the 1920s the WIIU was an afterthought and the group was finally disbanded in 1925.<br/><br/>Contents include articles by Michael Altschuler Herman Richter W.J. Dodge and others; literary contributions by Fred H. Hartmann Richard Le Galienne William Morris and Walt Whitman; portraits and reproductions of artworks by Eugene Higgins Jan Styka and Eugene Chaperon. An attractive and rather uncommon American labor souvenir book; OCLC notes 6 physical locations for any issue 2018. Literature Bureau of the Workers' International Industrial Union unknown books
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SOCIALISM WEITZ Louis
Out of a Job
New York: Louis Weitz 1915. First Edition. Small octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's tan pictorial card wrappers; 59pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Wrapper extremities a bit chipped and toned spine lettering partly effaced else Near Very Good internally near fine. "Peoples Educational Society" - upper cover. Socialist study of unemployment. A copy would be sent to Jack London in Honolulu prompting him to write to Weitz: "I think it is a good clean straight-from-the-shoulder presentation of the situation for the jobless ones. My congratulations" see "The Letters of Jack London 1913-1916" 1988 p. 1543. Quite uncommon with only five physical copies in OCLC as of September 2018 at Cornell Library of Congress U. Kansas Harvard and U. Wisconsin. Not in Egbert. Louis Weitz unknown books
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SOCIALISM DEBS KARSNER David
Debs: His Authorized Life and Letters
New York: Boni & Liveright 1919. First Edition. Small octavo 19cm. Maroon cloth boards; dustjacket; frontispiece portrait; ix244pp. Shallow chip to cloth at base of spine else a tight well-preserved copy in the very uncommon pictorial dustwrapper. Jacket with brief losses at head and heel of spine panel not approaching text mild abrasions to front panel and mild overall soil but still a Very Good example. Ownership signature of California historian and author Charles Elmer Upton. Standard biography written during the 1920 Presidential campaign in which Debs ran as a candidate from his jail cell in Atlanta's Woodstock Prison and still polled nearly a million votes. Forbidden by his jailers to write Debs reputedly composed the book's introduction verbally while Karsner transcribed it. Offers a detailed though partisan account of Debs's arrest and imprisonment for opposing U.S. entry in to the First World War with additional chapters on his early career as a trade unionist and co-founder of the American Socialist Party. Rarely seen in dustwrapper. Boni & Liveright unknown books
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SOCIALISM GITLOW Benjamin
Drop title Ben Gitlow Will Speak on the Future of the Socialist Party
New York: Organization Committee for a Revolutionary Workers Party n.d. ca. 1934. First Edition. Quarto broadside flyer 28x21cm. printed mimeograph. Extremities unevenly toned with a few tiny chips along right-hand edge none approaching text else Very Good or better. Flyer promoting a talk by the New York-based socialist politician Benjamin Gitlow 1891-1965 a founding member of the CPUSA who later in life turned conservative and McCarthyist. The present item dates from Gitlow's tenure with the Workers Party on whose ticket he ran for Governor of New York in 1926. The talk held at the radical Rand School addressed such questions as "Will the Socialist Party Go Left or Right" and "Will the Socialist Party split" Not separately catalogued in OCLC as of July 2018. Organization Committee for a Revolutionary Workers Party unknown books
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SOCIALISM MOYER Harvey P.
Songs of Socialism for Local Branch and Campaign Work Public Meetings Labor Fraternal and Religious Organizations Social Gatherings and the Home
Chicago: Brotherhood Publishing Inc 1907. Third Edition. Small octavo 19.5cm.; printed brown card wrappers; 128pp. Light wear else Very Good to Near Fine. Early edition of this popular Socialist song-book which went into at least seven editions between 1905 and 1913. COHEN 120; EGBERT II p. 494. Brotherhood Publishing, Inc unknown books
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SOCIALISM ARMENIAN AMERICANS NOREAN A.
Text in Armenian Drwagner H.H. Dashnakts'ut'ean Gorts'uneut'iwnits': 1. Tasnameak
Boston: Hayrenik'" Tparan 1917. First Edition. Octavo 18.5cm.; publisher's brown pictorial cloth stamped in black; 492pp.; photographic frontispiece 29 plates chiefly portraits. Very slightly ex-University of Michigan Library with their rubberstamp to textblock fore-edge light shelf wear brief dampstain to rear cover else Very Good and sound though the interior does have a bit of a smoky odor. History of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation "Dashnaktsutyun" the nationalist and socialist political party founded in 1890 by Christapor Mikaelian Stepan Zorian and Simon Zavarian. This account is published by the Federation's Boston-based newspaper "Hayrenik" Fatherland three years into the Armenian Genocide a period of almost ten years during which the Ottoman Empire systematically killed 1.5 million Armenians including many members of the Federation. Hayrenik'" Tparan unknown books
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SOCIALISM HOFFMAN PHOTO STUDIOS
Group Portrait of the Detroit Polish Socialist Congress 1928
Detroit: Hoffman Photo Studios 1928. Original vintage print sight area ca 27cm x 45cm ca 11-1/2" x 17". Captioned in image. Professionally matted and framed with UV-protective plexiglas glazing. Sight condition fine; not examined out of frame. The portrait studio of Tomasz Hoffman 1892-1978 specialized in serving Detroit's Polish community producing work from the early 1920s through the 1940s. This attractive group portrait of Detroit's Polish Socialist Club is taken in front of the group's headquarters the Dom Ludowy on Detroit's East Side. Hoffman Photo Studios unknown books
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SOCIALISM PERIODICALS COHEN Mary Roche Evan ed
The Young Socialist Campaigner. Number 1 March '70 All Published
New York: Socialist Workers Party Young Socialist Campaign Committee 1970. First Edition. Quarto 28.5cm.; single sheet folded twice; photographic illus. About Fine. Only issue of a magazine "written for and by the youth who endorse the Socialist Workers Party 1970 election campaign" supporting African-American activist Clifton DeBerry for governor of New York. Includes the piece "Fight for High School Rights" and a list of demands among them to end the war in Vietnam "mass independent Black and Puerto Rican political parties" "free abortion and birth control" "No cops in schools" "Preferential hiring of Afro-Americans Puerto Ricans and women" "Free the Panther 21" and finally "For a socialist America." 2 holdings in OCLC as of May 2016 at Harvard and Wisconsin Historical Society. Socialist Workers Party, Young Socialist Campaign Committee unknown books
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SOCIALISM NEARING Helen and Scott
Socialists Around The World
New York: Monthly Review Press 1958. First Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 160pp. Mild wear to board edges and spine ends still a tight VG copy in the original dustwrapper which is rubbed and slightly faded with a chip at crown just VG. Monthly Review Press unknown books
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SOCIALISM KARSNER David
Talks With Debs in Terre Haute and Letters from Lindlahr
New York: New York Call 1922. First Edition. 12mo 18cm. Pale blue ribbed cloth with paper spine and cover labels; dustjacket; 221pp; frontis. portr. Tight Near Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper with brief loss at crown and closed tear at base of spine; Very Good. Uncommon in jacket. New York Call unknown books
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SOCIALISM PENNSYLVANIA MORAVEK S. Stanislaus Rev
Socialismus a Reforma
Wilkes-Barre PA: Tlacou "Bratstva 1917. First Edition. 16mo 15cm. Staple-bound pamphlet; 43pp. Text browned and slightly brittle; covers slightly soiled; Good. Anti-socialist tract by a Pennsylvania Slovak priest. The author also penned a American-Slovak language primer 1924 but the present title does not appear in the catalog of any OCLC member institution. Tlacou "Bratstva unknown books
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SOCIALISM MARCY Mary E.
Skinny's Turkey Dinner" in The International Socialist Review Vol. X No. 5 November 1909
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr 1909. First Edition. Octavo 23cm. Original pictorial wrappers; pp 385-472. Slight cover wear and soil; light wear to spine; occasional creasing; Very Good. Includes the entirety of Mary Marcy's socialistic Thanksgiving satire "Skinny's Turkey Dinner." Cover illustration by J. Reynolds. Other contributors to this issue include James Hatton Brower "Mickey's Religious Experience"; Lida Parce "The Relation of Socialism to the Woman Question"; others. Uncommon in original wrappers. Charles H. Kerr unknown books
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ECONOMICS SOCIALISM SINCLAIR Upton
The Industrial Republic: A Study of the America of Ten Years Hence
New York: Doubleday Page 1907. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards blocked in gilt and white on spine and front cover; xiv 284pp; 8 inserted leaves of plates halftones. Moderately rubbed and worn; thin split to front hinge at frontispiece; a few pages with sharp slices in margin presumably from opening; complete and Good but best considered as a reading copy. A key early work by Sinclair supplying a sort of non-fiction sequel to his The Jungle which had been published a year earlier. In the current work Sinclair analyzes present economic conditionsconcentrating on wage-slavery and concentration of wealth and predicts an inevitable social and economic revolution. Ahouse calls this the first of Sinclair's "book-length essays.the same sort of popularized economic analysis later found.in Book of Life Letters to Judd The Way Out" etc. Includes a promotional chapter on Helicon Hall Sinclair's ill-fated experiment in cooperative living the Hall burned to the ground shortly before the book went to press. AHOUSE A9. Doubleday, Page unknown books
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SOCIALISM MASSACHUSETTS HUGO George B. and James F. CAREY
Socialism: "The Creed of Despair" :: Joint Debate in Faneuil Hall March 22 1909 between George B. Hugo President Employers' Association of Massachusetts Affirmative and James F. Carey State Secretary Socialist Party of Massachusetts Negative
Boston: George B. Hugo 1909. First Edition. Octavo 23cm. Publisher's green cloth boards lettered in black on front cover; 60 1pp. Ink presentation inscription from George B. Hugo to front endpaper dated 1913. Mild cover soil and spotting; still a tight well-preserved copy VG or better. Final page reprints the "Declaration of Principles of the Employers' Association of Massachusetts - Organized for Law and Order and Industrial Peace. Full transcript of the debate including occasional interjections from the audience. Since the volume was published at Mr. Hugo's expense we may assume he thought himself the victor; though he notes in his foreword that ".they the Socialists submitted their own copy for publication which being incorrect and slackly handled I refused to countenance.they nevertheless proceeded to publish it ignoring the law in question quite in accordance with established Socialistic tenets." We have never encountered the version published by the Socialist Party Club of Boston but we imagine that a side-by-side comparison of the two would prove instructive. George B. Hugo unknown books
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SOCIALISM EDUCATION SINCLAIR Upton
The Goose-Step: A Study of American Education
Pasadena: by the Author 1923. Second Edition. Four 12mo volumes 18cm in uniform pictorial buff wrappers printed in black ink. Wrappers toned lightly soiled; one with a small 1/4" closed chip near upper spine; Very Good. Lacking wrap-around outer jacket as described in Ahouse never seen by us. The relatively uncommon wrappered issue comprising the entire Second Edition of 8000 copies. A bitter attack on the American university system with frequent reference to Sinclair's own experiences at Columbia University and with Columbia President Nicholas Murray Butler whom Sinclair portrays as a puppet of the city's business interests. AHOUSE A30b. by the Author unknown books
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SOCIALISM CHILD LABOR SPARGO John
The Bitter Cry of the Children
New York: Macmillan 1906. First Edition. Octavo 20cm. Brown gilt-pictorial cloth boards; 337pp; 32 inserted leaves of plates halftones. Light edgewear to boards still a bright clean and unmarked copy Near Fine. A socialist's exposé of child labor in America well-illustrated with photographic plates credited to Marjory Hall G.W. Goler Peter Roberts and the Pennsylvania Child Labor Committee the last photographic plates though uncredited almost certainly by Lewis Hine. Spargo 1876-1966 edited the socialist monthly The Comrade and published a number of socialist tracts before moving to the right during the First World War. In his later years Spargo was an outspoken advocate of free-market capitalism. The current work went through numerous reprintings; the first edition is somewhat uncommon in the trade and is notable for the quality of its photographic illustrations. Macmillan unknown books
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SOCIALISM POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS WHARTON CE. Charles Everett C. E.
Original Campaign Poster: "Wharton Will Make Good!.All for the People and Nothing for the Interests
Kenton OH: 1908: S.i. 1908. Original poster ca 35cm x 28cm. Printed recto only in black ink on stiff white poster board; photographic portrait of the candidate halftone at upper left. Brief closed tear at upper margin; minor toning and wear Very Good. Attractive campaign poster in which Wharton a Socialist Candidate for the Ohio State Legislature promises to give his "best endeavor to forwarding the regular Socialist program of all production to the producer" and to ".work early and late for the Repeal of the New Tax Law.and to cut out every useless official in the State and County and reduce all salaries to not over $5.00 per day." Charles E. Wharton's 1908 campaign appears to have gained some national notoriety; a 1908 New York Times article describes him as a "wealthy socialist" whose campaign was to be assisted by twelve stump speeches by the Countess of Warwick "one of the most famous of English Socialists. S.i. unknown books
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SOCIALISM GREAT BRITAIN SOCIALIST LABOUR PARTY
The Development of Socialism in Great Britain
Glasgow: The Socialist Labour Press N.d. ca 1918. First Edition. 12mo 18cm. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed wrappers; 30pp. Text slightly darkened else Fine. A primer for workingment outlining the economic history of Great Britain from the feudal era to the early 20th century. Undated but text makes reference to the recent "European War. The Socialist Labour Press unknown books
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SOCIALISM WW1 DARROW Clarence
The War in Europe: a Lecture Delivered Before the Chicago Society of Rationalism.
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr 1918. First Edition. Original printed wrappers; 31pp. Chips to wrapper edges; neat repair to small section at fore edge of front cover; mild tanning to text; Good or better. A Rationalist analysis of the European war with much criticism of its religious and capitalist origins. HUNSBERGER 117. Charles H. Kerr unknown books
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SOCIALISM FINNISH AMERICAN IMPRINTS af URSIN NR. Nils Robert N. R.
Proletaariaatteita: Kokoelma Kirjoituskia
Fitchburg MA: Suomalainen Sosialistinen Kustannusyhtio 1914. First American edition. Octavo 20cm; cloth boards; dustjacket; 437p. Tight clean copy Very Good or better. In original printed dustwrapper chipped at margins and with small clear-tape reinforcements at flap-folds; Good. Ursin 1854-1936 a major figure in early Finnish labor movements has been called the "Father of Finnish Socialism." The present anthology of Ursin's writings on labor subjects was produced by the Finnish-Socialist Publishing Company a publishing cooperative centered around the newspaper "Raivaaja" the Finnish labor weekly which has been in continuous publication since 1905. The present copy bears the ink ex-libris of one John R. Karvonen who was the defendant in a celebrated Massachusetts free speech case in 1914 arrested for parading with a red flag and convicted of inciting riot - qv. Feldman "Free Expression and Democracy in America" 2008 p.223. Very scarce in or out of jacket. Suomalainen Sosialistinen Kustannusyhtio unknown books
Bookseller reference : 12090
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SOCIALISM UNITED STATES TUCKER Irwin St. John
Now It Must Be Done
Chicago: Socialist Party of the United States 1920. First edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed wrappers softcover; 37p. Complete but soiled; text browned and detached from covers; preliminary leaves loose; Good only. Socialist Party of the United States unknown books
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Communism African American
Ben Davis--Fighter Cover Title
New York: Harlem Communist Election Campaign for the Re-election of Benjamin J. Davis 1949. <br /><br /> Single page folded once to create a 4-page brochure measuring 11 x 8 1/2 inches 280 x 215 mm when folded.<br /><br />Illustrated brochure featuring an autobiographical statement by Benjamin J. Davis a Black Communist who was running for re-election to the New York City Council. The statement was based on his testimony in the 1949 trial against him and 10 other Communist leaders who had been charged with conspiring to overthrow the government.<br /><br />Davis recounts his childhood in Georgia attending college at Morehouse and Amherst and graduating from Harvard Law School. He talks about some of the cases he worked on as a lawyer and ends with a plea for readers to sign petitions to secure a place for him on the ballot. The brochure lists his 11-point program which includes ending police brutality in Harlem and restoring the five-cent fare. <br /><br />We find no institutional holdings of this brochure in OCLC and none in commerce June 2021. <b>RARE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: A bit of handling wear and soiling. A Near Fine copy. Harlem Communist Election Campaign for the Re-election of Benjamin J. Davis books
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Jefimova Boris Efimov Boris
CZECH AGITPROP Za Trvalý MÃr Proti Podnecovatelum Války For Lasting Peace Against Warmongers
Praha Prague: Nakladatelstvi Mir Drustevnà Práce 1951. First Edition. <br /><br />Small Quarto 10 7/8 x 9 1/4 inches; 275 x 235 mm 124 pages in illustrated boards. <br /><br />A collection of anti-Hitler and anti-U.S. cartoons by the great Soviet cartoonist Boris Efimov 1900-2008 whose name is rendered in Czech as Boris Jefimova. The anthology starts in the 1930s with the rise of Hitler and carries forward to the late 1940s attacking the Marshall Plan Wall Street fat cats the Western alliance and the U.S. position in Korea.<br /><br />By contrast and not surprisingly the Soviet Union is portrayed heroically having single-handedly defeated Hitler. Given the preponderance of Wall Street financiers in the cartoons Wall Street appears to be behind Western imperialism and belligerence and even abetted the rise of Hitler. The book opens with a quote from "J. Stalin" and contains 60 cartoons mostly in black-and-white but some containing deep red representing of course the supposed nobility of the Soviet Union and its allies. <br /><br />Copies of this Czech-language book are uncommon. OCLC lists just three institutional holdings: the College of William and Mary the National Library of the Czech Republic and the University of Leipzig. <br /><br />A very good striking example of Czech-Russian agitprop during the dark days of the Cold War. <b>SCARCE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Light soiling and wear to the boards but the pages are clean and bright. Very Good or better. Nakladatelstvi Mir – Družzstevnà Práce hardcover books
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Women's Suffrage Socialism
Woman's Suffrage 1914
Suffrage Socialist Women of Greater New York. Woman's Suffrage. New York: New York Labor News Company 1914. An Address delivered by Daniel De Leon Under the Auspices of The Socialist Women of Greater New York. 48 pages 6 ¾ x 5 in. Paper wrappers. "The Ballot and The Class Struggle" written in ink across top edge of front cover. Lecture presided over by a woman Mary Papelsky. "The Socialist Women of Greater New York have invited you to this meeting for the purpose of presenting to you the position they take in the matter of Woman's Suffrage and the reasons for their position." In this pamphlet De Leon equates women's suffrage to socialist class struggle. Previous owner's name inscribed on cover. Two punch holes along left edge. Light dampstaining around left right and bottom edge of first couple of pages but not cover. Good to very good condition. An interesting pamphlet that documents the connection between women's suffrage and socialism movements in early 20th century America. unknown books
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No Author
What Is Socialism Answering Questions Most Frequently Asked
New York: New York Labor News Company 1942. 12mo 7 1/4 x 5 inches; 185 x 128 mm 48 pages in stapled wrappers soft cover. <br /><br />Questions and answers about socialism from the standpoint of the Socialist Labor Party. <br /><br />CONDITION: Vertical crease throughout soiling creasing sunning and rubbing to wrappers corners bumped some page corners creased. About Good. New York Labor News Company paperback books
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Petersen Arnold
W.Z. Foster: Renegade or Spy
New York: New York Labor News Co. 1945. 4th Printing. 12mo 7 1/4 x 5 inches; 184 x 126 mm 39 9 pages in stapled wrappers. <br /><br />Ferocious attack on William Z. Foster a longtime senior official of the Communist Party who gets tagged as a "war monger" "liberty bond salesman" "fraud" "Anarchist microbe" "mediocre personality" and similar terms of endearment. The Socialist Labor Party which the author led was a bitter foe of the Communists. <br /><br />This pamphlet was originally issued in 1932. Our copy is the 4th printing from August 1945 presumably updated because the Communist Party ousted Earl Browder as leader and installed William Z. Foster to succeed him. <br /><br />CONDITION: Vertical crease probably from mailing ink smudges to lower wrapper but internally clean and unmarked. About Very Good. <br /> New York Labor News Co. books
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Petersen Arnold
De Leon: The Uncompromising
New York: New York Labor News Company 1939. 12mo 7 1/4 x 5 inches; 187 x 127 mm 76 2 pages in illustrated stapled wrappers soft cover. <br /><br />Socialist Labor Party pamphlet celebrating the life and achievements of Daniel De Leon an important figure in the party and a Marxist theoretician. <br /><br />CONDITION: Soiling to wrappers edge wear corners bumped but otherwise clean and unmarked. A Very Good copy. <br /><br /><br /> New York Labor News Company paperback books
Bookseller reference : 2354
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Hass Eric
Socialism Answers Anti-Semitism
New York: New York Labor News Company 1944. <br /><br />12mo 7 1/4 x 5 inches; 185 x 129 mm 48 pages in stapled wrappers. <br /><br />Eric Hass decries the spread of anti-Semitism in the United States and argues that socialism is the answer to defeating it. Hass was a Socialist Labor Party stalwart who went on to be the SLP's candidate for president in four elections. <br /><br />This 1944 edition is scarce in commerce. <br /><br />CONDITION: Light vertical crease throughout some soiling to wrappers tears to two leaves not affecting any text. Otherwise Very Good. <br /><br /><br /> New York Labor News Company books
Bookseller reference : 2362
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Petersen Arnold
Communist Jesuitism
New York: New York Labor News Company 1939. First Edition. 12mo 7 5/16 x 5 inches; 186 x 128 mm 110 pages in stapled wrappers soft cover. <br /><br />A pamphlet attacking Communists as swindlers frauds capitalist stooges and other crimes. Written by Arnold Petersen leader of the Socialist Labor Party in his usual subtle style. Petersen believed the Communists had abandoned the working class by supporting the New Deal and offering to collaborate with other parties during the Communists' "Popular Front" phase. <br /><br />This pamphlet is quite scarce in commerce. <br /><br />Seidman P117 Joel Seidman editor Communism in the United States--A Bibliography Cornell University Press 1969. <br /><br />CONDITION: Soiling and creasing to wrappers corners bumped a few scattered stains and creasing to page corners. Overall Very Good. <br /> New York Labor News Company paperback books
Bookseller reference : 2355
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Hass Eric
Stalinist Imperialism: The Social and Economic Forces Behind Russian Expansion
New York: New York Labor News Company 1946. <br /><br />12mo 7 1/4 x 5 inches; 183 x 127 mm 48 pages in stapled wrappers. <br /><br />The author Eric Hass maintains that the Soviet brand of socialism is not socialism at all. Instead he says the USSR is an imperialist power bent on domination of other countries. Hass was a Socialist Labor Party stalwart who went on to be the SLP's candidate for president in four elections. <br /><br />CONDITION: Some creasing soiling and toning to wrappers but internally clean and bright. Very Good. <br /><br /><br /> New York Labor News Company books
Bookseller reference : 2360
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Petersen Arnold
Soviet Russia: Promise or Menace
New York: New York Labor News Company 1939. <br /><br />12mo 7 1/4 x 5 inches; 183 x 127 mm 62 2 pages in stapled wrappers soft cover. <br /><br />Attack on Soviet communism by Arnold Petersen who was a leader of the Socialist Labor Party. The SLP was a bitter foe of the Communists claiming they had abandoned Marxism. <br /><br />CONDITION: Vertical crease throughout soiling to wrappers but internally clean and unmarked. Very Good. <br /><br /><br /> New York Labor News Company paperback books
Bookseller reference : 2361
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Johnson Olive M.
May Day vs. Labor Day: A Comparison of the Social Significance of the Two Days of Labor Celebration
New York: New York Labor News Company 1936. First Edition. 12mo 7 1/4 x 5 inches; 183 x 126 mm 40 pages in stapled wrappers. <br /> <br />A spirited -- rollicking even! -- essay with attacks on "fakers" "impostors" "swindlers" and other enemies of the working class. <br /> <br />May Day is the true holiday of the proletariat the author says while Labor Day in the U.S. is fake because it "sticks to the hollow pretense of a brotherhood between capital and labor." <br /> <br />Issued by the radical Socialist Labor Party the pamphlet argues that American labor leaders have eagerly embraced the capitalist class. "The 'labor' leaders travel through the country in the grandest style stop at the 'swellest' hotels--often as not manned with non-union labor. Where they go liquor flows expensively and plentifully--sometimes swinishly." page 30 <br /> <br />The author Olive M. Johnson 1872-1954 was a longtime activist editor and pamphleteer for the Socialist Labor Party. <br /> <br />This pamphlet is peak agit-prop. SCARCE. <br /> <br />CONDITION: Light soling and creasing to wrappers. Pages clean and unmarked. A Very Good or better copy. <br /> <br /> <br/><br/> New York Labor News Company unknown books
Bookseller reference : 1497
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Petersen Arnold and Daniel De Leon
Marxism vs. Anti-Marxism
New York: New York Labor News Company n.d. 1931. First Edition. 8vo 9 inches / 230 mm tall 30 2 pages in stapled wrappers. Vertical fold throughout wrappers soiled a few pages with narrow folds along the outside page edges. Pages unmarked. Good only. <br /> <br />Essays on the class struggle by the prolific Arnold Petersen and Daniel De Leon of the Socialist Labor Party. A defense of their radical vision of Marxism with frequent attacks on the more moderate Socialist Party which they consider anti-Marxist. Frontispiece depicts Karl Marx. Three further illustrations. <br /> <br /> <br/><br/> New York Labor News Company unknown books
Bookseller reference : 1496
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AMERICAN SOCIALISM MILLS Walter Thomas
The Struggle for Existence
Chicago: International School of Social Economy 1904. First Edition. Octavo 23cm. Publishers cloth titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 640pp. Small nick to cloth at crown of spine; mild external wear and soil; still a tight clean Very Good copy. <br/><br/>A substantial elementary treatise on socialism intended as a textbook for group or home study "to help those who are trying to help others in the long warfare against oppression and so to have some share in helping to make a speedy and peaceful transition from the outworn social forms by which we are surrounded and of which we are the victims." Mills 1856-1942 was a leading voice of the moderate wing of the Socialist Party known for his small stature four and a half feet tall and rousing oratorical style. International School of Social Economy unknown books
Bookseller reference : 52063
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League for Proletarian Socialism
Ripping off the working class: the split at Health/PAC-West or Rev. Elinor and Deacon Dan's anti-Communist crusade and traveling medicine show
San Francisco: League for Proletarian Socialism 1976. 17p. staplebound pamphlet stained across the top edge a reading copy. League for Proletarian Socialism unknown books
Bookseller reference : 87156
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League for Proletarian Socialism
A proposal for Marxist-Leninists at the Western Socialist Social Science Conference
San Francisco: League for Proletarian Socialism 1975. Pamphlet. 45p. wraps 6.5x8.5 glue remains on title page from tipped in mimeographed note present but now detached else very good condition. Cover title: League for Proletarian Socialism a proposal. First point of the tipped in note is "to combat dogmatism and sectarianism within the Marxist-Leninist left." The League was also known as the Democratic Workers Party and known for its goon squad tactics. League for Proletarian Socialism unknown books
Bookseller reference : 204948
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Williams Wheeler E. Merrill Root et al.
Minutes of a Communist Cell on Art: Anonymous but Believed Unquestionably Authentic by Competent Authorities Reveals the Party's Tactic re: "Modern Art" Cover Title
Fullerton California: Education Information Inc. 1960. First Edition. <br /><br />Small Quarto 10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches; 271 x 212 mm 21 pages in stapled illustrated wrappers <br /><br />A "second report on modern art" issued by Education Information Inc. an Orange County California anti-communist outfit. The main highlight: the purported minutes of a Communist cell comprising artists and writers: "PROGRAM: Remove all inspiring and beautiful art from all exhibits and substitute degenerate art in its place.Keep rational art out of all public exhibits -- allow only empty or distorted art to be shown in museums dealers' exhibits.Tie junk together and set it up as sculpture." <br /><br />There's plenty more in this vein. The woman who took these notes -- "a friend of truth and decency" -- supposedly mailed them to the right-wing sculptor Wheeler Williams who was active in anticommunist politics. Williams provides a Foreword to the notes saying he believes they're authentic. He says he shared the notes with colleagues and some former FBI undercover agents all of whom apparently believe the notes are genuine. <br /><br />Also in this pamphlet are articles on "subversion in art" lengthy excerpts from Williams's testimony to Congress on the Soviet uses of art and a piece by E. Merrill Root on conservative philosophy. <br /><br />This pamphlet is scarce. OCLC records around a dozen institutional holdings. <b>SCARCE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Vertical fold throughout original mailing label and partially removed tape to lower wrapper extremities worn from handling staples a bit rusted. Otherwise Very Good. Education Information, Inc. books
Bookseller reference : 2275
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The Workers School
Fall Term Announcement of Courses September 24 to December 15 1934
New York: The Workers School 1934. <br /><br />Octavo-sized pamphlet measuring 8 7/8 x 6 inches 225 x 152 mm 16 pages in stapled printed wrappers. Laid in is a slightly smaller handbill printed recto only. <br /><br />A pamphlet listing courses available during the Fall 1934 term at the Workers School in New York which was operated by the Communist Party USA. The school offered a staggering number of evening courses in various aspects of Marxism-Leninism economics and history all from the Party's standpoint. The school located at 35 East 12th Street in Manhattan was one of many Workers Schools that the Party operated around the country. That building now consists of co-op apartments that sell for millions of dollars unaffordable by any proletarians. <br /><br />There were also courses in English and Russian along with "special courses" such as "Problems of the Negro Liberation Movement" taught by James W. Ford the CPUSA's candidate for Vice President in the three elections from 1932-1940. Another special course was "Revolutionary Interpretation of Modern Literature" taught by staff members of New Masses magazine including Mike Gold and Joseph Freeman. <br /><br />Tuition for each course was $3. The school emphasized that it wasn't an academic institution and that it "participates in all the current struggles of the working class" including strikes and demonstrations. Nonetheless it was clearly no-nonsense. In a section on attendance the pamphlet states: "Classes begin promptly at the hour set. Regular and punctual attendance is required. Failure to attend two weeks in succession without explanation will necessitate elimination of the student from the rolls." <br /><br />Included with this pamphlet is a handbill for the Workers School highlighting "Courses for Workers." One of the lecturers listed is "Browder" referring to Earl Browder the general secretary of the CPUSA. <br /><br />This pamphlet and handbill are rare. OCLC shows no institutional holdings although it's possible they're included in uncatalogued ephemera collections.<b> RARE</b>. <br /><br />A fascinating insight into Communist education during the Depression years of the 1930s. <br /><br />CONDITION: The pamphlet has some soiling and edge wear to the wrappers as well as rusted staples. Top half of lower wrapper detached from text block. Internally clean and unmarked. The handbill has numerous small nicks and tears. About Very Good overall. The Workers School paperback books
Bookseller reference : 2256
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Moscow Postcards of the 1930s
Moscow: Various Publishers 1930s. <br /><br />Thirty black-and-white postcards each measuring 5 3/4 x 3 7/8 inches 147 x 98 mm all unused and unmounted. <br /><br />A collection of postcards depicting scenes in Moscow during the tumultuous 1930s when Stalin was expanding his power and killing off his opponents. The scenes include workers' houses hotels department stores and cathedrals that the Bolsheviks closed and turned into museums. Other scenes show Arbat Square Pushkin's monument the race course Dynamo stadium the Izvestia building Moscow University and more. <br /><br />Seventeen of the cards have brief captions in English and sometimes in French and German in addition to Russian. <br /><br />A wonderful series of vibrant images of Moscow in one of the most significant decades in Soviet history. <br /><br />CONDITION: One card lightly trimmed at the edges a few minor stains to the versos of some cards. Overall Very Good or better. Various Publishers books
Bookseller reference : 2279
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US. Department of the Army U. S.
Communist Interrogation Indoctrination and Exploitation of Prisoners of War
Washington D.C.: Department of the Army 1956. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />Small 4to 10 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches; 279 x 215 mm 71 1 pages in stapled card wrappers. <br /><br />U.S. government guide explaining how North Korea interrogates and indoctrinates American prisoners of war. While the focus is mostly on North Korea the guide also discusses Chinese Communist treatment of prisoners. The final chapter asserts that "resistance is possible and profitable." With several black-and-white photographs. Army Pamphlet 30-101. <br /><br />CONDITION: Soiling and age toning to wrappers rusting to staples internally clean and unmarked. A Very Good copy. Department of the Army books
Bookseller reference : 2181
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Cesaire Aime
Letter to Maurice Thorez
Paris: Editions Présence africaine 1957. <br /><br />12mo 7 1/16 x 4 1/2 inches; 180 x 113 mm 15 1 pages in stapled green-gray wrappers with errata slip pasted to recto of lower wrapper. <br /><br />A letter from the Martinique poet and politician Aimé Césaire to Maurice Thorez secretary general of the French Communist Party. Césaire announces his resignation from the party citing Stalin's crimes and the party's treatment of nonwhite people. Césaire's letter is dated October 24 1956 one day after the start of the Hungarian Uprising against the Soviet Union and eight months following Nikita Khrushchev's "secret speech" documenting Stalin's crimes. <br /><br />"I think I have said enough to make it plain that it's neither Marxism nor Communism I repudiate; that the use certain people have made of Marxism and Communism is what I condemn" Césaire writes. "That what I want is that Marxism and Communism be harnessed into the service of colored peoples and not colored peoples into the service of Marxism and Communism." pages 11-12. Pamphlet entirely in English.<br /><br />While this pamphlet is widely held by institutions it's uncommon in commerce. SCARCE. <br /><br />CONDITION: Light soiling to wrappers some light creasing to pages but clean and unmarked. A Very Good or better copy of a scarce publication. Editions Présence africaine books
Bookseller reference : 2127
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