L'evoluzione del socialismo dall'utopia alla scienza

Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) * * * * * +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | been preserved. | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * 25 CENTS SOCIALISM UTOPIAN AND SCIENTIFIC _By Frederick Engels_ CHARLES H. KERR & COMPANY _Publishers CHICAGO_ PRINTED IN U.S.A. SOCIALISM UTOPIAN AND SCIENTIFIC BY FREDERICK ENGELS _TRANSLATED BY EDWARD AVELING_ _D.Sc., Fellow of University College, London_ WITH A SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR CHICAGO CHARLES H. KERR & COMPANY PUBLISHER'S NOTE Socialism, Utopian and Scientific needs no preface. It ranks with the Communist Manifesto as one of the indispensable books for any one desiring to understand the modern socialist movement. It has been translated into every language where capitalism prevails, and its circulation is more rapid than ever before. In 1900, when our publishing house had just begun the circulation of socialist books, we brought out the first American reprint of the authorized translation of this work. The many editions required by the growing demand have worn out the plates, and we are now reprinting it in more attractive form. It will be observed that the author in his introduction says that from 1883 to 1892, 20,000 copies of the book were sold in Germany. Our own sales of the book in America from 1900 to 1908 were not less than 30,000. Last year we published the first English version of the larger work to which the author refers in the opening page of his introduction. The translation is by Austin Lewis, and bears the title "Landmarks of Scientific Socialism" (cloth, $1.00).…