This is the first English translation (by AM Simons and Marcus Hitch) and U.S. publication of Wilhelm Liebknecht’s 1899 essay. It would become a standard text for the Socialist Party’s left wing and be reprinted by Kerr and others many times over the following two decades. Online text linked here.

No Compromise – No Political Trading by Wilhelm Liebknecht. Charles H. Kerr Publishers, Chicago. 1900.

Contents: Preface, The Party Law, Proletarian Socialism, State Capitalism, Bismarck, Bourgeois and Bourgeoisie, The German Bourgeoisie Never Passed Through the Liberal Stage of Development, The Failure of the Progressive Party, The Pamphlet on Tactics, What is a Compromise?, Socialism and Ethics, Theoretical Differences of Opinion Not Material, Tactics is Material, We are a Peculiar People, The Inclined Plane of Compromise, Bluecher’s Motto, Compromises like Treaties are Not Kept, Millerand, The Situation in France, Independent Action is the Only Thing that is Practical. 64 pages.

The Charles H Kerr publishing house was responsible for some of the earliest translations and editions of Marx, Engels, and other leaders of the socialist movement in the United States. Publisher of the Socialist Party aligned International Socialist Review, the Charles H Kerr Co. was an exponent of the Party’s left wing and the most important left publisher of the pre-Communist US workers movement.

Access to PDF of book: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwm9bl&view=1up&seq=3