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Key writings and speeches by one of the major figures of the labor movement of the 19th century.
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Table of contents
• Title Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Translator's Note
• Introduction
• Writings and Speeches
Spider and Fly
Election Flyer from 1882 Campaign
Knowledge is Power
Selected Speeches of Wilhelm Liebknecht
On May Day (1895)
Karl Marx: Biographical Memoirs
Reminiscences of Engels
Letter on International Working Men's Association
Preface--Eleanor Marx's The Working-Class Movement in England
On the Political Position of Social Democracy
No Compromise--No Political Trading
Socialism
Anarchism, Social Democracy and Revolutionary Tactics
On the Erfurt Program of 1891
For a People's Militia
On the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune
World Politics, China Madness, Transvaal Wars
• Through the Eyes of Others
August Bebel
Edward Aveling
Liebknecht's Letter to Lauria Lafargue
Paul Lafargue
Henry M. Hyndeman
Open Letter to Liebknecht by London Anarchist
News Reports on Liebknecht's Trip To the United States
V.I. Lenin Preface To Liebknecht Pamphlet
Kurt Kersten, Comintern "Voices of Revolt"
Clara Zetkin Debate with Liebknecht
Daily People Obituary
Appendixes
Chronology of Liebknecht's Life
Select Bibliography
People Glossary
Subject Glossary
Index
About the author
Dr. William A. Pelz is an academic historian who specializes in European and comparative labor history. His previous books include The Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism and Democracy (2014), Karl Marx: A World to Win (2012), Against Capitalism: The European Left on the March (2007); and The Spartkusbund and the German Working Class Movement (1988). His articles and reviews have appeared in the American Historical Review, Film & History, German History, German Studies Review, International Labor and Working Class History, International Review of Social History, Labor Studies, Journal of European Studies, Science & Society, Soviet Studies, Sozialismus, JahrBuch fuar Forschungen zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung, and International Labor History Yearbook, among others. Pluto Press (London) will publish his forthcoming book, Peoples History of Modern Europe in 2015.
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Key writings and speeches by one of the major figures of the labor movement of the 19th century.
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