‘Six lectures first delivered at Arlington Hall, New York City, weekly the six Thursdays beginning with Thursday, November 17, 1914.’

Socialism and War by Louis B. Boudin. New Review Publishing Association, 1915.

Contents: Preface, Clearing the Ground, The Economic Causes of the War, The Ideologic Causes of the War, The Immediate Causes of the War and the Stakes Involved, The War and the Socialists, Socialist vs Bourgeois Theories. 267 pages.

New Review was a New York-based, explicitly Marxist, sometimes weekly/sometimes monthly theoretical journal begun in 1913 and was an important vehicle for left discussion in the period before World War One. In the world of the Socialist Party, it included Max Eastman, Floyd Dell, Herman Simpson, Louis Boudin, William English Walling, Moses Oppenheimer, Walter Lippmann, William Bohn, Frank Bohn, John Spargo, Austin Lewis, WEB DuBois, Maurice Blumlein, Anton Pannekoek, Elsie Clews Parsons, and Isaac Hourwich as editors and contributors. Louis Fraina played an increasing role from 1914 on, leading the journal in a leftward direction as New Review addressed many of the leading international questions facing Marxists. The journal folded in June, 1916 for financial reasons. Its issues are a formidable archive of pre-war US Marxist and Socialist discussion.

PDF of full issue: https://archive.org/download/socialismwar00boud/socialismwar00boud.pdf