To-day, the 9 May, it is something awful. The paper contains these few words: "To-day in Kherson on the Strelbitsky Field, twenty peasants were hung for an attack made with intent to rob, on a landed proprietor's estate in the Elizabetgrad district.[1](...)".

    Originally disseminated by the German Social-Democratic Party (SPD) in 1908, The Historic Accomplishment of Karl Marx summarizes Kautsky’s perspective on the importance of the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to the workers’ movement, as well as his reflections on the status of Marx’s thought as it relates to European intellectual history. It also contains an important formulation of the so-called merger formula, the notion that a mass party capable of enacting revolution must come about through the “merger” of socialism and the workers’ movement. The Historic Accomplishment of Karl Marx contains ideas that were vital for Lenin’s intellectual development and is a shining example of the oft-neglected socialist theory that was produced during the time of the Second International. The introduction by Alexander Gallus reflects on the continuing relevance of Kautsky’s thought to socialists and the workers’ movement, and examines the state of the world in 2020 through this lens.

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    Louis, Missouri. The author was pastor of a Baptist church there.

    He became identified with the socialists in England in early life, became a leader in the English labor movement; and served on the Executive Council of the Social Democratic Federation. He immigrated to America in 1901 and was thereafter a longtime member of the National Executive Committee of the American Socialist Party. He edited the socialist periodical, The Comrade, became involved in child labor issues; helped promote laws on child and woman labor, and moved to Vermont in 1909. He remained active in socialist circles, but moved to the right over World War I, and with Samuel Gompers and George Creel, founded the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy, in favor of American involvement in the war. He gradually became outspoken advocate of free-market capitalism.