Preface to the Second Printing

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface to the Second Printing VII
3. Preface XIX
4. Contents XXIII
5. Part I. Why Labor Failed
6. 1. Pressure Group or Political Action 3
7. 2. From Revolutionary Party to Pressure Group 16
8. 3. Leninism 22
9. Part II. The Failure of a Revolution
10. 4. Herman Müller – Paradigm of the German Worker 35
11. 5. The Socialists and the Revolution 42
12. 6. The Stabilization of the Middle-Class Republic 58
13. Part III. Labor in the Great Depression
14. 7. “Doctor or Heir” 83
15. 8. British Labor Blunders Through 98
16. 9. German Labor’s “Toleration” Policy 129
17. 10. The Failure of the French New Deal 144
18. 11. Swedish Labor’s Success 167
19. Part IV. The Rise of Fascism
20. 12. The Emergence of Fascism: Italy 179
21. 13. A Fascist Defeat: Austria 188
22. 14. Hitler Wins 201
23. 15. The Cannon of February 208
24. 16. New Labor Tactics: Neo-Socialism and Labor Plans 220
25. Part V. Fascism on the International Scene
26. 17. Socialist Foreign Policy and Fascism 233
27. 18. The Popular Front 258
28. 19. War in Spain 274
29. 20. Labor’s Road to Munich 297
30. 21. Into the Abyss 325
31. Part VI. Outlook
32. 22. The Underground Movement 337
33. 23. A New Opportunity 353
34. Bibliographical Notes 361
35. Index 365