Collectivism and Industrial Evolution by Emile Vandervelde. Charles H. Kerr Publishers, Chicago. 1906.

Contents: Preface, Introduction, PART 1) CAPITALIST CONCENTRATION, I) THE DECADENCE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY, The Peasant Proprietors, The Artisans, The Small Retailers, Summary and Conclusions, II) PROGRESS OF CAPITALIST PROPERTY, Corporation, Capitalist Monopolies, Agreements, Trusts, III) OBJECTIONS, Workingmen’s Savings, Democratization of Capital, Commercial Enterprises, Agricultural Enterprises, Industrial Enterprises, Summary and Conclusions, PART II) SOCIALIZATION OF THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION AND EXCHANGE I) THE THREE ELEMENTS OF PROFIT, Wages of Insurance, Wages of Abstinence, Wages of Superintendence, Surplus-Value and Profit, II) ADVANTAGE OF SOCIAL PROPERTY, The Profits of Public Enterprises, The Condition of Those Employed, The Purchase of Raw Materials, The Cost of Products and of Services, The Quality of the Products, The Interests of Generations to Come, Summary and Conclusions, III) ADMINISTRATION OF THINGS, The Proletarian Conquest of the Public Powers, The Government State and the Industrial State, The Decentralization of Social Enterprise, The State of the Future, IV) FORMULAS OF DISTRIBUTION, The Right to the Entire Product of One’s Labor, The Right to Existence, Summary and Conclusions, V) MEANS OF REALIZATION, Expropriation without Indemnity, Expropriation with Indemnity, Expropriation with Partial Indemnity, Summary and Conclusions, VI) OBJECTIONS, Socialism and Individual Initiative, Socialism and Liberty, Socialism and Art. 199 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. It remains a left wing publisher today.

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