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Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century
BY WERNER SOMBART Professor in the University of Breslau
With a Chronicle of the Social Movement 1750-1896
"_Je ne propose rien, je ne suppose rien; j'expose_"
TRANSLATED BY ANSON P. ATTERBURY Pastor of the Park Presbyterian Church New York
WITH INTRODUCTION BY JOHN B. CLARK Professor of Political Economy Columbia University
G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK LONDON 27 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET 24 BEDFORD STREET, STRAND The Knickerbocker Press 1898
COPYRIGHT, 1898 BY G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS Entered at Stationers' Hall, London
TO THE OTHER AND BETTER MEMBER OF THE COMMUNISTIC SOCIETY TO WHICH WE BELONG THIS TRANSLATION IS INSCRIBED
While rambling through quaint old Nuremberg, last summer, I was driven for shelter from rain into a bookshop. In a conversation with the genial proprietor, he called my attention to a book, lately published, that had already made a deep impression upon the world of German readers. A reading and re-reading of the little book convinced me that English readers, as well, will be glad to follow Professor Sombart in his comprehensive and suggestive review of Socialism.
Thanks are due to the learned German professor, whose name appears on the title-page, for his courtesy in this matter; also to his German publisher. I would also express obligation to my friend, Professor Sigmon M. Stern, with whom I have consulted freely on some difficult points of translation. The Introduction by Professor John B. Clark, of Columbia University, will be appreciated, I know, by the reader as well as by myself.
The reader of this work will miss something which he has been accustomed to find in books on Socialism. Professor Sombart has not given us synopses of the theories of St. Simon, Proudhon, Marx, Owen, and others. His work marks the coming of a period in which socialism is to be studied, rather than the speculations of socialists. Theories and plans no longer constitute the movement. There are still schools of socialistic thought; but there is something actually taking place in the industrial world that is the important part of the socialistic movement. Reality is the essence of it.