With the abolition of classes the entire civilized world will become
one great productive community. Within this community mutual struggle
among members will cease and will be carried on with the outside world.
It will no longer be a struggle against our own kind, but a struggle
for subsistence, a struggle against nature. But owing to development of
technique and science, this can hardly be called a struggle. Nature is
subject to man and with very little exertion from his side she supplies
him with abundance. Here a new career opens for man: man’s rising from
the animal world and carrying on his struggle for existence by the use
of tools, ceases, and a new chapter of human history begins.
Library of Science for the Workers
To understand modern Socialism, you must understand Evolution.
Socialists predict the speedy end of the capitalist system as a result
of irresistible NATURAL LAWS, the workings of which have been studied
for two generations since their discovery. Most of the books in which
these laws are explained are too difficult to read and too expensive to
buy, except for the leisure class. The ten books here described will
give you a clear understanding of the great process in which Socialism
is the next step.
1. =The Evolution of Man.= By Wilhelm Boelsche. Contains absolute proof
of the truth of Darwin’s theory of the descent of man. Illustrated.
2. =The Triumph of Life.= By Wilhelm Boelsche. Describes the resistless
triumph of the Life Force over all obstacles. Illustrated.
3. =Life and Death.= By Dr. E. Teichmann. A study in biology, explaining
how and why life began and how the life of each individual ends.
4. =The End of the World.= By Dr. M. Wilhelm Meyer. A study of
the natural forces that will some time destroy all life on earth.
Illustrated.
5. =The Amazons.= By Emanuel Kanter. An excellent analytical study
of the phenomenon of ancient fighting women, the Amazons, from the
standpoint of dialectical materialism.
6. =Germs of Mind in Plants.= By R. H. France. A remarkable work
proving that “mind” is not limited to man or even to animals, but is
found in plants also. Illustrated.
7. =The Struggle Between Science and Superstition.= By Arthur M. Lewis.
This book deals with what is on the whole the most interesting and
dramatic element in social development. Side by side with the struggle
between social classes, there is waged a bitter conflict between
ancient ignorance and new knowledge. The new knowledge is the natural
ally of the essential social class――the proletariat.
8. =Science and Revolution.= By Ernest Untermann. A history of the
growth of the Evolution theory, showing how at every step it was fought
by the ruling classes and welcomed by the workers.
9. =Social and Philosophical Studies.= By Paul Lafargue. The causes of
belief in God and the origin of abstract ideas explained in a brilliant
and convincing way.
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