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The first American edition of a Scottish author's work on socialism.

Reproduction of the original: Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

Excerpt from Contemporary Socialism Some of the following chapters are republished, with modifications and considerable additions, from the Contemporary Review or the British Quarterly, by permission of the conductors of those periodicals, but most of the work, more than two-thirds of it, appears now for the first time. I have confined myself to the broader phases of contemporary socialism. There are many petty groups and coteries among revolutionary socialists, but it is needless to describe them in detail, because while each calls itself by its own name they differ only on minor points of future government or present policy, and adhere, all of them, to one or other of the two main types of existing social democracy - the Centralist, which is usually known as Communism. Socialism, or Collectivism, and the Anarchist, which - though also Communist, Socialist, or Collectivist - is generally known as Anarchism or Nihilism. 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.

Modern Socialism is a work by Annie Besant. It delves into the topic of finding an alternative to the capitalist system, by interjecting a spiritual basis for transformation.