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Socialism Made Easy
by James Connolly
First published as a pamphlet by Charles H. Kerr &
Co., Chicago, 1909
Transcribed for the Internet by the Workers' Web ASCII Pamphlet project,
September 1997
FOREWORD
In this work the author presents his own views in his own manner.
Hence he employs the first person singular in preference to the
impersonal 'we' of journalism or of official production. The
articles have been written at various times in Ireland and America
and have already attained a wide circulation through being
reprinted in various Socialist journals in both countries.
Constant requests to the author to have them collected and
published in a more permanent and accessible form have induced him
to make this selection in the hope that they may be thought not
unworthy of a place in at least the fugitive literature of the
Socialist movement.
A word as to the plan of the work may not be amiss here.
Section 1 is light, satirical, jesting and serious by turns, and
follows the usual course of attack and defense, argument and
rebuttal, experienced by a Socialist workman in factory, workshop
or mine before he has destroyed the prejudices and won the serious
consideration of his fellow workers. Section 2 is serious
throughout, and is an attempt to deduce from actual every-day
experiences and from historical facts the probable correct answer
to the question put by the worker when he realizes the necessity
of a change, viz: How must we act? How are we going to do it?
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