Chapter I: Front Matter

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25 CENTS

SOCIALISM

UTOPIAN AND SCIENTIFIC

_By Frederick Engels_

CHARLES H. KERR & COMPANY

_Publishers CHICAGO_

PRINTED IN U.S.A.

SOCIALISM

UTOPIAN AND SCIENTIFIC

BY

FREDERICK ENGELS

_TRANSLATED BY EDWARD AVELING_
_D.Sc., Fellow of University College, London_

WITH A SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

CHICAGO
CHARLES H. KERR & COMPANY

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.

June, 1908.