Bebel began writing his memoirs in 1909 and, completed the first, and the second of is planned three parts before unable to finish the work, dying in 1913. The first part was released in 1910 and it presented here. In 1913 the two completed sections were released in the US as ‘My Life’ by the University of Chicago Press. The Socialist Literature Company began as the publishing house of the SLP’s The People, but was captured by dissidents who would go on to join the Socialist Party and continue producing and reproducing pamphlets under that name. Ernest Untermann was a German American member of the SLP, then the SP and an editor, writer and translator responsible for many of the first English translations of German socialism. He was for years an editor of Victor Berger’s Milwaukee Leader.

Bebel’s Reminiscences (Part One) by August Bebel, Translated by Ernest Untermann. Socialist Literature Company, New York. 1911.

Contents: Preface (1911), Scenes of Childhood and Youth, Years of Apprenticeship and Wandering, Back to Wetzlar and Onward!, My Entry Into the Labor Movement and Into Public Life, Lassalle’s Rise and Its Results, The Convention of the German Workingmen’s Clubs, Friedrich Albert Lange, New Social Phenomena, The Stuttgart National Convention, Wilhelm Liebknecht, Increasing Dissatisfaction of Workingmen’s Clubs, The Catastrophe of 1866, After the War, The Continued Development of the Federation of German Workingmen’s Clubs, Personal Matters, The March to Nuremberg, The Trade Union Movement, My First Sentence, Before Barmen-Flberfeld. 224 pages.

PDF of full book: https://archive.org/download/bebelsreminiscen00bebe/bebelsreminiscen00bebe.pdf