ABSTRACT
This book of mine requires at the outset a few words of explanation; for otherwise there is a danger that some readers may search in it for what they will certainly fail to find. It is not meant primarily, or to any considerable extent, either as an exposition or as a criticism of Marx's doctrines, here paraphrasing, condensing and expounding the words of the master, or there seeking to set him right where I believe him to have been wrong. There exist plenty of expositions and abridgments of Marx by followers of his doctrine; and criticisms and refutations of him are as the sands of the sea-shore. There are even competent judicious essays upon his work, with which I have no desire to set up this book in rivalry.
