THE FOLLOWING LECTURES were delivered before a study group composed exclusively of trade union workers. The character of the group, as well as the necessity to limit the material to three lectures, made it inadvisable and impossible to enter into a thorough discussion of the different aspects of socialist doctrine. Important questions of principle and tactics were not even touched upon and those that were treated were discussed without extensive analysis. It was the interest shown by the workers who listened to these lectures that led me to the decision to put them into printed form with the hope that they would constitute a simple introduction to revolutionary socialism for many thousands of proletarians. Albert Goldman.

What is Socialism? Three Lectures for Workers by Albert Goldman. Pioneer Publishers, New York. 1938.

Pioneer Publishers was the publishing house established by the Communist League of America (Opposition) in 1930. It later served the Socialist Workers Party and was superseded by Merit Publishers in 1965, and later by Pathfinder Press in 1969.

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