Applied Socialism

Excerpt from Applied Socialism: A Study of the Application Cation of Principles to the State
During the winter of 1908-1909, by invitation of my Colleagues of the Board of Directors of the Rand School of Social Science, New York City, I delivered two courses of lectures to a large number of students in that institution. The first course consisted of twelve lectures devoted to an exposition of the elements of Socialism and covered substantially the same ground as that covered by my Socialism, a Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles. The second course consisted of fourteen lectures, the substance of which is reproduced in the following pages, largely in response to the earnest solicitation of many of the students who attended the course.
When my colleagues asked me to deliver this course of lectures on Applied Socialism, they understood that I would not undertake to build a new Utopia, to invent a perfect social system, or, as Marx would scornfully say, to "write the kitchen recipes of the future."
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