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“...DANIEL DE LEON-OUR COMRADE
When I was approached by Comrade Petersen, National
Secretary of the Socialist Labor Party, with the request that
I write a biographic contribution to this book, my feeling was
one of profound regret and annoyance with myself. The fact
is that I had for many years back harbored a secret desire to
write De Leons biography some day. That a biography of
De Leon, however, should be infinitely more than the mere
events and data of his life, I knew only too well; that it should
be even more than the story of his activity in the Labor
Movement, I was fully aware. It ought to combine all of this
indeed, and, besides, contain something of his inner life, his
development, and his action and reaction upon the causes and
events as they unfolded themselves during his rich and event-
ful life. Some of this a few of us knew fairly well, but the
real key was held by De Leon himself. I had often resolved
to ask him to give something of his most intimate selfsome-
thing that the...”
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