Daniel De Leon : social architect /
[by] Arnold Peterson
- New York, NY : New York Labor News Co., 1941-53.
- 2 volumes (400 pages, 313 pages) : illustrations, portraits, and facsimiles ; 23 cm.
Volume one: Introduction / by Eric Hass -- Pioneer socialist editor -- Contribution to Marxian science -- From reform to revolution -- Educator -- Character builder -- The uncompromising -- De Leonism vs. Stalinism -- Social architect -- In memorial: 1914 - 1939 -- Volume two: With a portrait of Daniel De Leon -- Orator -- Disciplinarian -- Internationalist -- Social scientist -- Emancipator -- Reviling of the great: Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Karl Marx, Daniel De Leon, Appendix: An adversary without honor -- De Leon and the "people" -- De Leonist milestones.
"Daniel De Leon: Social Architect" is an appreciation of a man who has shown the way to the reconstruction of society on a basis that meets the needs of the over-whelming majority of the population, the working class.Socialist Industrial Unionism, the crown-ing ·discovery of social science, is the discovery of Daniel De Leon. It was indeed a task of master- building, of social architecture of the first order, f.or that great ,socialist to create this instrument of working class emancipation and Socialist Reconstruction. It was a task that will matter much to the present and future generations." -- online