Le Programme Socialiste
Paris: Librairie Marcel Rivière, 1927. Later printing.
French translation of the best-known book by the German Marxist theoretician, Karl Kautsky (1854-1938).
Kautsky's book analyzes the development of capitalism and outlines the nature of a future socialist society. According to Kautsky, the victory of socialism and the working class was inevitable.
This work first appeared in German in 1892 (Das Erfurter Programm in seinem grundsätzlichen Theil erläutert) and is usually known in English as The Class Struggle. Kautsky added a short preface to the first French edition in 1909 and made some changes to the text. The present edition was issued in 1927 by Librairie Marcel Rivière, which published and sold socialist texts.
PHYSICAL DETAILS: Small Quarto (9 x 5.6 inches; 230 x 142 mm), pps. v [1], 240, in brown printed wrappers (soft cover).
CONDITION: Light wear to the wrappers. Many of the pages remain unopened and a few pages have light pencil marks. Light age toning to the leaves. Shadow of sticker to the spine. About Very Good overall. Item #688
Price: $60.00