The fifth volume in Max Beer’s ‘Social Struggles’ series.

Social Struggles and Modern Socialism by Max Beer. Translated by H.J. Jennings. Small, Maynard and Company Publishers. Boston. 1926.

Contents: I) GERMANY (1800—1847), Wars and National Freedom and Unity, Economic and Social Agitation, Socialist Impulses: Criticism Poetry Periodical Literature, 1825—1847, Social Criticism and Revolutionary Projects: Gall Buchner, II) GERMAN FOREIGN REVOLUTIONARY SOCIETIES, The League of the Banished, The League of the Just: Weitling, Weitling and the Revolutionary Dictatorship, Weitling’s Latter Days, The “Just” become the Communist League, III) POLITICAL AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN GERMANY (1840-1847), Stormy Petrels, Social Criticism: Hess Grün Lüning Oelckers, IV) KARL MARX, His Significance, Marx and the Hegelian Dialectic, The Materialist Conception of History, The Class Struggle, The Essence of his Economics, Evolution and Revolution, Friendship with Friedrich Engels, Foundation and Programme of the Communist League, Communist Reaction upon Germany: Stefan Born Mentel, V) GERMAN CONSERVATIVE SOCIAL REFORM, Romantic Personalities, Marlo -Winkelblech, Karl Johann Rodbertus, VI) THE SECOND GERMAN REVOLUTION (1848-1849), Political Course, Social Reform Tendencies (1848-1849), End of the Communist League, VII) ECONOMICS AND POLITICS (1850—1880), The Age of Liberalism, Transition to Imperialism and Socialism, VIII) THE PERIOD OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL, Lassalle and the German General Labor Union, Foundation and Career of the First International, The Paris Commune, IX) THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM (1880-1914), The Economic Roots of Imperialism, The Spread of Socialism – Karl Kautsky, X) THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL (1889-1914), Successes and Failures, The Second International and the War, Germany, Austria -Hungary, Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia and Poland, United States of America, XI) REVOLUTION THE WAR NATIONS (1914–1920), Breakdown of the Second International, The Russian Revolution, The Third German Revolution (1918–1919), Social Agitation in France and Great Britain (1917-1920), XII) THE SMALLER PARTIES (1870–1920), In Europe, In Australia, South Africa, South America, Asia, Index. 232 pages.

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