A great issue of ISR. Don’t miss Mary Marcy’s ‘The Value of Immorality’, Scott Nearing’s ‘Parasitic Power of Property’, Jim Larkin’s ‘The Underman’, and James Connolly’s ‘Revolutionary Unionism and War.’

The International Socialist Review. Vol. 15 No. 9. March, 1915.

Contents: Cover by Ralph H. Chaplin, The Right to Starve by L.H., Revolutionary Unionism and War by James Connolly, How About the War at Home? by Phillips Russell, The Value of Immorality by Mary E. Marcy, Machines That Have Made History by M.G.R, Parasitic Power of Property by Scott Nearing, The Underman by Jim Larkin, Why Should I Be a Socialist? by Jack Morton, Our Rodbertian N.E.C by Henry Slobodin, Savage Survivals in Higher Peoples by Prof. I. Howard Moore, Scientific Organizing and the Farmer by Henry P. Richardson, Running Their Own Business by Bruce Rogers, Editorial: Where We Stand on War, International Notes, News and Views, Publishers’ Department.

The International Socialist Review (ISR) was published monthly in Chicago from 1900 until 1918 by Charles H. Kerr and critically loyal to the Socialist Party of America. It is one of the essential publications in U.S. left history. During the editorship of A.M. Simons it was largely theoretical and moderate. In 1908, Charles H. Kerr took over as editor with strong influence from Mary E Marcy. The magazine became the foremost proponent of the SP’s left wing growing to tens of thousands of subscribers. It remained revolutionary in outlook and anti-militarist during World War One. It liberally used photographs and images, with news, theory, arts and organizing in its pages. It articles, reports and essays are an invaluable record of the U.S. class struggle and the development of Marxism in the decades before the Soviet experience. It was closed down in government repression in 1918.

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/isr/v15n09-mar-1915-ISR-riaz-ocr.pdf