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The reader who has progressed thus far, will find these four pamphlets (to be read in the order given) a veritable mine of facts and information as to the broad lines upon which Socialism is based and upon which the Socialist Republic will be reared.

When it comes to the pessimist, the man who knows what Socialism demands, believes the Socialist Republic would be justice personified, and yet blinks his eyes and says it is all very nice to think about, but that the remoteness of its realisation should place the Socialist Republic outside the consideration of reasoning beings—when one meets that kind of a man, one must have tactics that will suit the occasion. It will not do much good to argue with him, but if one persuade him to purchase a book that treats of his particular case, one may be able to set his brain matter going. That is the object of this work.

A short compendium of what money is.

An essay written by Marx in which the theory of surplus value is explained in as simple a way as the nature of the subject permits. It includes an Introduction by F. Engels.

There is nothing in Socialist literature of this country that covers the same ground as does this little pamphlet: a careful perusal of its contents will prevent any honest student of Socialist philosophy being wrecked upon the shoals of sentimentalism, and thereby save them much time and useless effort in the investigation of social problems.

It will aid them immensely in seeing the social question from a clean-cut, positive stanpoint.