Mia Editor’s Notes

[a] This and the later quotes are from Marx’s famous preface to his 1859 work A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, better known at the time as Zur Kritik. The translation here is Boudin’s own and not sourced from the first English translation by N.I. Stone published in 1904.

[b] A day-by-day search of the Daily Call going to the end of October 1909 could not find any article with this title. My hunch is that Boudin changed his proposed title to The Political Situation in the United States and the Socialist Party, which was published in the expanded Sunday Call of October 24, 1909. As a separate subscription from the standard Call, the Sunday Call has not yet been scanned.