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“...g proletariat with
most useful knowledge, by translating from the German Marxs
The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Bebels (Die Frau
und der Sozialismus) Woman under Socialism, and from
the French the monumental masterpiece of Eugene Sue, The
Mysteries of the People, or History of a Proletarian Family
Across the Ages.
Again, what a contrast between De Leon and the writers
of books, the authors, in the other camp. There, writers of
pamphlets and books mostly without an original thought, a re-
hash of what others had taught and written, in some instances
even plagiarizing De Leons great lectures, What Means Tins
Strike? and Reform or Revolution, and invariably paid for
by a publisher; here, a man who, having all the qualifications
of a man of letters, preferred to translate what he thought use-
ful for the training of the class conscious workers, and equip-
ping them with the knowledge requisite for their emancipation,
rather than appear as the author on the title page, with his
autograph...”
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