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On the tenth of March, 1896, the same year that the last despairing revolt of the small producer against capitalism in America was to end in the overwhelming defeat of Bryan, an Italian scholar published in the city of Rome the remarkable work which is now for the first time offered to American readers. To publish this book in America at that time would have been an impossibility. The American socialist movement was then hardly more than an association of immigrants who had brought their socialism with them from Europe. Today it numbers at least half a million adherents, and its platform is an embodiment. | Essays on the Materialistic Conception of by Antonio Labriola 1 Essays on the Materialistic Conception of by Antonio Labriola The Project Gutenberg EBook of Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History by Antonio Labriola This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History Author Antonio Labriola Translator Charles H. Kerr Release Date June 1 2010 EBook 32644 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CONCEPTION OF HISTORY Produced by Brian Foley Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive American Libraries. ESSAYS on the Materialistic Conception of History Essays on the Materialistic Conception of by Antonio Labriola 2 by ANTONIO LABRIOLA Professor in the University of Rome translated by CHARLES H. KERR Chicago CHARLES H. KERR COMPANY CO-OPERATIVE COPYRIGHT 1908 BY CHARLES H. KERR COMPANY CHICAGO JOHN F. HIGGINS PRINTER AND BINDER Illustration Logo 376-382 MONROE STREET CHICAGO ILLINOIS TRANSLATOR S PREFACE. On the tenth of March 1896 the same year that the last despairing revolt of the small producer against capitalism in America was to end in the overwhelming defeat of Bryan an Italian scholar published in the city of Rome the remarkable work which is now for the first time offered to American readers. To publish this book in America at that time would have been an impossibility. The American socialist movement was then hardly more than an association of immigrants who had brought their socialism with them from Europe. Today it numbers at least half a million adherents and its platform is an embodiment of the ideas first adequately stated in the