Introduction
[1]For a brief study of socialism see Thomas Kirkup, A History of Socialism (New York, 1909); John Spargo, A Summary and Interpretation of Socialistic Principles (New York, 1906); Harry W. Laidler, A History of Socialist Thought (New York, 1927). For a more extended study, Donald Drew Egbert and Stow Persons, editors, Socialism and American Life (Princeton, New Jersey, 1952), 2 Vols.
[2]A. C. Pigou, Socialism Versus Capitalism (London: Macmillan and Company, 1938), p. 2; Egbert, op. cit., I, iii.
[3]Ibid., 1.
[4]Egbert, Socialism and American Life, I, Introduction.
[5]See also Max Beer, A History of British Socialism, London, 1929, I, 160-180; Egbert, op. cit., I, 156-172.
[6]H. W. Laidler, Social-Economic Movements (Thomas Y. Cromwell, New York, 1946), 98.
[7]Socialism, Utopian and Scientific (Chicago: 1914), 74; Egbert, op. cit., I, iii.
[8]Engels, op. cit., 91.
[9]This conclusion does not coincide with the discussion in Socialism and American Life, I, 215-522 by Daniel Bell. It appears that Bell used an indefensibly wide interpretation of Marxianism to demand so many pages to relate the actions of the followers of Marx. An example, from the viewpoint of this author, may be noted on page 250. The discussion in these two hundred and fifty pages is a splendid story of American Socialism but hardly of Marxian Socialism in America.