PUBLISHER'S NOTE
Socialism,
Utopian and Scientific needs no preface. It ranks with the
Communist
Manifesto as one of the indispensable books for any one desiring to
understand the modern socialist movement. It has been translated
into
every language where capitalism prevails, and its circulation is
more
rapid than ever before.
In
1900, when our publishing house had just begun the circulation of
socialist books, we brought out the first American reprint of the
authorized translation of this work. The many editions required by
the growing demand have worn out the plates, and we are now
reprinting it in more attractive form.
It
will be observed that the author in his introduction says that from
1883 to 1892, 20,000 copies of the book were sold in Germany. Our
own
sales of the book in America from 1900 to 1908 were not less than
30,000.
Last
year we published the first English version of the larger work to
which the author refers in the opening page of his introduction.
The
translation is by Austin Lewis, and bears the title "Landmarks
of Scientific Socialism" (cloth, $1.00). It includes the greater
portion of the original work, omitting what is presented here, and
also some of the personalities due to the heat of
controversy.
Frederick
Engels is second only to Karl Marx among socialist writers, and his
influence in the United States is only beginning.
C.H.K.