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This issue of the REVIEW will reach many thousand new readers, and a word of explanation regarding its past, present and future may not be amiss.

It is owned and controlled by a cooperative association of working people, over two thousand in number, who have each subscribed a small sum, in most cases just ten dollars, for the sake of publishing the literature of Marxian Socialism. When we entered on this work, in 1899, Socialism was thought to be a foreign product which no American need take seriously. The literature of modern International Socialism was practically unknown in America. The writings of Marx, Engels, Dietzgen and Kautsky could scarcely be had at any price in the English language. No capitalist publish

er would issue them and no Socialist had the money.

Our co-operative plan has solved the problem. The greatest works of European socialists are now within easy reach of American workingmen at low prices, and an American Socialist literature is gradually taking shape. Meanwhile socialism in America has been growing at a pace far quicker than indicated by the vote. Capitalists and politicians already see in the international movement of the working class a force to reckon with, and the resistless progress of industrial development is day by day recruiting the number of those who, in the words of our Communist Manifesto, have nothing to lose but their chains, and the world to gain.

It is to these proletarians and to those who wish to join their movement that the REVIEW is addressed. We started its publication in 1900, but we made one mistake which limited its growth for years. We thought that the problems of social evolution must be deliberated on in advance by a select few of superior brain power, who should later on diffuse the results of their deliberations among the common We imagined that there might be some thousands of these superior brains in the United States. These we sought to discover and for them we edited the REVIEW. That in spite of this mistake the magazine survived, is due partly to the fact that we said some vital things, and partly to the fact that the growing book publishing business has been drawn upon until lately to help support the RE

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We have seen a new light. We have begun to realize that the ordinary working people have an instinctive sense of what is good for them that is more to be trusted than the most exquisite of theories. We have begun to suspect that if what we have had to say has failed to interest the discontented workers, the fault was probably ours rather than theirs. This sounds simple, but from the moment we came to a realizing sense of it, the support we have received from the REVIEW's readers has been warm and enthusiastic instead of languid and perfunctory. The circulation of the REVIEW a year ago was less than in 1901. But during 1908 it doubled three times, and we are beginning 1909 with with a rush

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