Excerpt from Karl Marx: His Life and Work Professor Veblen, one of the ablest and most brilliant of our American sociologists, has very well said The Socialism that inspires hopes and fears today is of the school of Marx. N 0 one is seriously apprehensive of any other so-called Socialistic movement, and no one is seriously concerned to criticise or refute the doctrines set forth by any other school of Socialists.' It will, I think, he conceded that this is a remarkable tribute to the influence and power of a great thinker. It is not a small thing that an international political movement with many millions of adherents should be dominated so far by the intel lect of one man as commonly to be called by his name; for Socialism and Marxism have become interchangeable as practically synonymous terms. In the great European countries where Socialism is a power politically, the move ment is almost wholly dominated and inspired by the thought and deed of Marx. In the United States, where there is a growing Socialist movement which is generally recognized as being much bigger and stronger than its political manifesta tion, Socialism and Marxism are synonyms. In China and Japan the works of Marx are eagerly read and studied by those Who challenge the existing order and who dream of change. In Australia Marxian shibboleths are inscribed upon the red ban ners of a discontented proletariat. In Africa there are Karl Marx clubs, from which emanates the spirit of revolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.