The Gold Sickle;
...OR...
Hena the Virgin of the Isle of Sen.
By EUGENE SUE.
Translated from the original French
By DANIEL DE LEON.
This story is the first of the gems in the necklace of gems
that Eugene Sue felicitously named "The Mysteries of the
People; or The History of a Proletarian Family Across the Ages."
It is a story of Druid Gaul, captivating in its simplicity and
superbly preluding the grand drama that is gradually unfolded
from story to story, ending in the great French Revolution.
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THE PILGRIM'S SHELL
OR
FERGAN THE QUARRYMAN
By Eugene Sue.
Translated by Daniel De Leon.
283 pp., on fine book paper, cloth 75 cents.
This great historical story by the eminent French writer is one of the majestic series that cover the leading and successive episodes of the history of the human race. The novel treats of the feudal system, the first Crusade and the rise of the Communes in France. It is the only translation into English of this masterpiece of Sue.
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Eugene Sue wrote a romance which seems to have disappeared in a curious fashion, called "Les Mysteres du Peuple." It is the story of a Gallic family through the ages, told in successive episodes, and, so far as we have been able to read it, is fully as interesting as "The Wandering Jew" or "The Mysteries of Paris." The French edition is pretty hard to find, and only parts have been translated into English. We don't know the reason. One medieval episode, telling of the struggle of the communes for freedom, is now translated by Mr. Daniel De Leon, under the title "The Pilgrim's Shell" (New York Labor News Co.). We trust the success of his effort may be such as to lead him to translate the rest of the romance. It will be the first time the feat has been done in English.
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Woman Under Socialism
By August Bebel
Translated from the Original German of the Thirty-third Edition by Daniel De Leon, Editor of the New York Daily People, with translator's preface and foot notes.
Cloth, 400 pages, with pen drawing of the author.
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The complete emancipation of woman, and her complete equality with man is the final goal of our social development, whose realization no power on earth can prevent;—and this realization is possible only by a social change that shall abolish the rule of man over man—hence also of capitalists over working-men. Only then will the human race reach its highest development. The "Golden Age" that man has been dreaming of for thousands of years, and after which they have been longing, will have come at last. Class rule will have reached its end for all time, and along with it, the rule of man over woman.
CONTENTS:
WOMAN IN THE PAST.
Before Christianity.
Under Christianity.
WOMAN IN THE PRESENT.
Sexual Instinct, Wedlock, Checks and Obstructions to Marriage.
Further Checks and Obstructions to Marriage, Numerical Proportion of
the Sexes, Its Causes and Effects.
Prostitution a Necessary Institution of the Capitalist World.
Woman's Position as a Breadwinner. Her Intellectual Faculties,
Darwinism and the Condition of Society.
Woman's Civic and Political Status.
The State and Society.
The Socialization of Society.
WOMAN IN THE FUTURE.
INTERNATIONALITY.
POPULATION AND OVER-POPULATION.
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The Paris Commune
By Karl Marx, with the elaborate introduction of Frederick Engels. It includes the First and Second manifestos of the International Workingman's Association, the Civil War in France and the Anti-Plebiscite Manifesto. Near his close of the Civil War in France, turning from history to forecast the future, Marx says:
"After Whit-Sunday, 1871, there can be neither peace nor truce possible between the Workingmen of France and the appropriators of their produce. The iron hand of a mercenary soldiery may keep for a time both classes tied down in common oppression. But the battle must break out in ever growing dimensions, and there can be no doubt as to who will be the victor in the end—the appropriating few, or the immense working majority. And the French working class is only the vanguard of the modern proletariat."
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DEVELOPMENT
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SOCIALISM
From
Utopia
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BY
Frederick Engels.
This is the first complete American
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on Socialism, Utopian and Scientific.
As an introduction to the work itself, it
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written by Engels in 1892, and also
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written in the same year, treating
of the primitive form of collective
land ownership in Germany, and the subsequent
development of private property.
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From a Mechanical Standpoint
it is the first one of Marx's works published in
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piece of publishing. It is to be hoped that this
excellent volume is the forerunner of other
volumes of Marx, and that America will have
the honor of publishing an edition that is accurate
as to text, thorough in annotations, convenient
in size and presentable in every way.
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of it.—N. Y. Daily People.
By KARL MARX. Edited by his daughter,
ELEANOR MARX AVELING.
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This book is especially timely, like everything else that Marx
wrote. Written a couple of years before his "Capital" appeared,
it is an address to workingmen, and covers in popular form many
of the subjects later scientifically expanded in "Capital."
It is universally considered as the best epitome we have of the
first volume of "Capital," and as such is invaluable to the beginner
in economics. It places him squarely on his feet at the
threshold of his inquiry; that is, in a position where his perceptive
faculties cannot be deceived and his reasoning power
vitiated by the very use of his eyesight; whereas, by the very
nature of his capitalist surroundings, he now stands on his head
and sees all things inverted.
Special interest attaches to what Marx says relative to
strikes. Were the working class thoroughly acquainted with the
subject matter of this little work, we should hear no more of the
"common ground" on which capital and labor might meet to
settle their differences.
The thousand and one schemes that are daily being flaunted
in the faces of the working class by the lieutenants of the capitalists
show the necessity there is on the part of the working
class for a comprehensive understanding of the matter of wages,
the relation of the wage worker to the employer, the source of
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person willing to pay close attention to his words.
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Two Pages
From
Roman
History
I. Plebs Leaders and
Labor Leaders
II. The Warning
of the Gracchi
Two Lectures by
DANIEL DE LEON
Editor of The Daily People
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with the leaders of their time; and, through the failure of the
Gracchian movement, it is shown how modern reforms are pitfalls
for the labor movement of to-day.
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