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would not
only substitute a free-love regime for the present form of marriage, but,
going still further, would avail themselves of every opportunity for
destroying religion. The evils, however, would by no means end here,
for the new government, whose rapid decay would begin from the very
day of its birth, would in a short time collapse and fall, and then the
citizens of America would have neither a government to protect them
from the ravages of criminals, whose number would be legion, nor yet
any suitable system of organized industries for the employment of men
and the production of the necessaries of life. Consequently, trials and
sufferings incomparably greater than any of the present day would
befall the people in the reign of anarchy that would ensue.
It is to preserve our fellow-countrymen from ever having to endure
such calamities that we have undertaken this work, in which it is
proven conclusively that the "Reds," unless quickly thwarted, will
overwhelm us with unspeakable horrors of crime, rebellion, anarchy
and destitution.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION iii
Scope of Book, iii; Value to Workingmen, iii; Sympathy for Labor, iii;
Quotations from Socialist Authorities, iv; Revolutionists Set Back the
Cause of Labor, v; Bebel's Fabulous Picture of Socialist Possibilities, v;
Socialism Means War, vi.
CHAPTER I
SOCIALISM IN OTHER LANDS 1
Modern Socialism Dates from "Communist Manifesto," 1848, 1; Karl
Marx, 1; Engels, 1; International Workingmen's Association, 1;
"Capital" by Marx, the Socialist Bible, 2; Socialism in Germany, 2; in
Bavaria, 4; in Russia, 4; Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, 5; Socialism in
Austria-Hungary, 5; in France, 5; in Great Britain, 8; in Italy, 9; in
Spain, 9; in Belgium, 10; in Holland, 10; in Bohemia, 10; in Sweden,
11; in Norway, 11; in Argentina, 11; in Canada, 12; in Bulgaria, 12; in
Mexico, 12; in Other Foreign Lands, 12.
CHAPTER II
GROWTH OF SOCIALISM IN THE UNITED STATES 13
Introduced from Europe, 13; Workingmen's Party, 13; Socialist Labor
Party, 13; Socialist Democracy of America, 13; Socialist Party of
America, 13; Socialist Periodicals, 14; Socialist Party Strife and
Bossism, 14; The Internatonal, 16; The First International, 16; The
Second International, 16; International Socialist Bureau, 17; American
Socialists and the International, 17; The Berne Conference, 18; The
Third (Moscow) International, 18; Debs and American Socialists
Recognized by Lenine, 20; American Socialists' Straddle Resolution on
Berne and Moscow, 21.

CHAPTER III
THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF AMERICA DEVELOPS A LEFT
WING 23
Revolution Camouflaged as Evolution, 23; "Yellows," "Reds," "Rights"
and "Lefts," 23; Origin of the Left Wing, 24; Revolutionary Principles
of the Left Wing, 24; Sympathy with Russian Bolshevism, 25;
Industrial Unionism Advocated, 26; Mass Action and Strikes the
Prelude to Armed Rebellion, 26; "Moderate" Socialism Rejected by
American Revolutionists, 28; To Overthrow the United States
Government, 30; Text of Call to Moscow International, 31; American
Socialist Party for "Industrial Unionism," 34.
CHAPTER IV
THE FREE-FOR-ALL FIGHT BETWEEN THE RIGHT AND LEFT
WINGS 35
Rowdies at Socialist Meetings, 35; Revolution in America "at Hand,"
36; "Existence of the Party at Stake," 37; "The Steering Committee," 38;
Hillquit Says Left Wing is Not "Too Radical," 40; "Friendly
Separation," 41; The Left Wing Gets More "Dictatorship" Than It
Wants, 42; The Rights Expel and Suspend Tens of Thousands, 42; The
Socialists' "Immortal" Executive Committee, 42; Manifesto of the
Third (Moscow) International, 45.
CHAPTER V
BIRTH OF THE COMMUNIST AND COMMUNIST LABOR
PARTIES 52
Left Wing Conference, 52; Left Wingers Split, 52; Call for a
Communist Convention, 53; Too Many Would-Be Lenines and
Trotzkys, 54; The "Firing Squad," 55; National Emergency Convention,
55; Who Called the "Cops"? 57; A Convention on Each Floor, 57; The
Communist and Communist Labor Parties Organize, 57; Their

Principles, 58; "Reds" No Worse Than "Yellows," 58; Bolshevism of
the Socialist Party, 59; Utterances at the Emergency Conference, 60;
Revolutionary Character of the Socialist Party, 65; Trachtenberg on
Affiliation with Moscow International, 68; Glassberg Letter, 69; Victor
L. Berger, 70; American Socialists Join the Third International, 74;
Hillquit Encourages the Communists, 74; The Socialist Party's
Revolutionary Manifesto, 71-75.
CHAPTER VI
SOCIALISM IN THEORY 79
Socialist Office-holding is Not Socialism, 77, 85; Collective Ownership,
80; I. W. W. Point of View, 80; Socialism Explained Diversely by Its
Leaders, 80; Hillquit's Notion, 81; Debs' Demand, 81; American
Socialists to "Capture the Government," 82; Analysis of Collective
Ownership, 82; All Women to Work, 84; Atheism and Free-Love, 85;
Poetry from the "Call," 86; Don't Judge Socialism by Reform Planks in
Platforms, 87; Socialists Attack Their Own Social Reform Program, 89;
Unpatriotic Attitude of Socialists in the War, 92.
CHAPTER VII
SOCIALISM IN PRACTICE 94
Herron's Socialist Day Dream, 94; Communist Experiments in Russia
and Hungary, 94; Socialism in Yucatan, 96; "Zapata, Great Socialist
Leader of Southern Mexico," 97; Act of the Second: "Zapata, a Tyrant,
Who Played a Huge Joke on 100,000