Theodore Woolsey. Communism and Socialism in their History and Theory.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

DEFINITION AND ESSENCE OF COMMUNISM AND SOCIALISM

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CHAPTER II

SMALLER COMMUNISTIC SOCIETIES WITHIN THE STATE

I – Buddhist Monks—Essenes—Therapeutae

II – The Christian Monastic System

III – Anabaptists of Münster

IV – The Shakers

V – Smaller Communities concluded

Appendix I. 1. Change in the system of the Perfectionists. 2. New matter from Mr. Hinds’ American Communists

CHAPTER III

COMMUNISTIC THEORIES AND UTOPIAS

I – Plato—Sir Thomas More—Campanella

II – Theories, in France, of Mably and Morelly. The same reduced to Practice in Baboeuf’s Conspiracy

III – Theories of Communism—St. Simon and his Followers—Fourier

IV – Certain Religious Socialists—Laroux, Cabet, Louis Blanc

CHAPTER IV

THE INTERNATIONAL WORKINGMEN’S ASSOCIATION

I – Origin, Organization, Rules

II – International continued—Number of Members—Congresses of Geneva, Lausanne, Brussels, Basel

III – International concluded—Schism in Switzerland—Its Members at Paris in 1871—Manifesto of the Council at Loudon—Effects of Events at Paris

CHAPTER V

SOCIALISM IN GERMANY

I – Leading Features of the Theory of Marx

II – Lassalle and the German Workingmen’s Union

III – Socialism in Germany since Lassalle

Appendix. Mr. Mill’s Chapters on Socialism

CHAPTER VI

SCHAEFFLE’S “QUINTESSENCE OF SOCIALISM”

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II

CHAPTER VII

RECENT SOCIALISM IN ITS RELATIONS, ETC.

I – To the State and to Society

II – To the Individual and to Religion

III – To Religion (continued), to the Family and Marriage

IV – Relations to Society concluded

Appendix I. Extract from the Einfluss der Herrschenden Ideen of Eötvös

Appendix II. Extract from F. A. Lange’s “Arbeiterfräge,” Ed. 3

CHAPTER VIII

I – Is the Overthrow of Society in its present Form by Socialism probable?

II – Future Prospects of Socialism