From the preface by Charles H. Kerr, the translator, when this book
was first published in 1908: On the tenth of March, 1896, the same
year that the last despairing revolt of the small producer against
capitalism in America was to end in the overwhelming defeat of
Bryan, an Italian scholar published in the city of Rome the
remarkable work which is now for the first time offered to American
readers. To publish this book in America at that time would have
been an impossibility. The American socialist movement was then
hardly more than an association of immigrants who had brought their
socialism with them from Europe. Today it numbers at least half a
million adherents, and its platform is an embodiment of the ideas
first adequately stated in the Communist Manifesto of 1848, and now
first adequately explained and elaborated in this remarkable work
of Labriola. The central and fundamental proposition of socialism
is not any scheme for reconstructing society, on a cut-and-dried
programme, nor again is it any particular mathematical formula
showing to what extent the laborer is robbed by the present system
of the fruits of his labor; it is precisely this Historical
Materialism, which Labriola has so admirably explained in the
present work.
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