Ferdinand Lassalle

Excerpt from Ferdinand Lassalle: As a Social Reformer
The short account of Lassalle here submitted to the English reader is, with some slight alterations, a translation of my Introduction to the complate edition of Lassalle's Speeches and Works. I was asked to edit these by the executive of the German Social-Democratic Party of Germany in the spring of 1891. In the German this Introduction bears the title Ferdinand Lasselle and his Significance in the History of Social-Democracy. I did not adopt the same title for the English edition in order to avoid confusion between my own and other works already published in England under similar titles. Indeed, this sketch is not intended to complete with elaborate works like that of Mr. W. H. Dawson. It is intended rather to act as a complement to Mr. Dawson's book and other works dealing with Lassalle and German Social-Democracy. For a full treatment of the subject it is far too incomplete, and its constituent parts are of purpose unequally balanced. Thus many important statements and criticism were in the original reserved for the special introductions to the various works of Lassalle, and these I have not incorporated in the English volume. But, on the other hand, it deals with questions almost ignored by other writers, and after I have had access to documents hitherto unknown to them.
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