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From International Socialist Review, Vol.25 No.4, Fall 1964, p.126.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
Socialist Thought: A Documentary History
edited by Albert Fried and Ronald Sanders
Doubleday Anchor Books, Garden City, New York, 1964. 544 pp. with bibl. $1.95.
To the recent literature on the socialist tradition, Socialist Thought is a helpful addition. The editors confine their comments to biographical sketches and let the authors speak for themselves.
The collection seeks the seeds of socialist thought in the hopes of the early eighteenth century democratic revolutionaries; it traces these hopes from Rousseau through the disillusionment in the French Revolution, which the followers of Baboeuf then saw as “only the herald of another revolution, far greater, far more solemn, which will be the last.”
The articles representing Marx, Engels, and Trotsky are too short and too few to give an adequate understanding of their contribution to socialist theory, but the book contains a superb and rarely published essay by Engels summarizing Marx’s first volume of Capital.
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