The Beginning of Anarchy—The German School of Discontent—The Socialist Future—The Asylum in London—Birth of a Word—Work of the French Revolution—The Conspiracy of Babeuf—Etienne Cabet's Experiment—The Colony in the United States—Settled at Nauvoo—Fourier and his System—The Familistère at Guise—Louis Blanc and the National Work-shops—Proudhon, the Founder of French Anarchy—German Socialism: Its Rise and Development—Rodbertus and his Followers—"Capital," by Karl Marx—The "Bible of the Socialists"—The Red Internationale—Bakounine and his Expulsion from the Society—The New Conspiracy—Ferdinand Lassalle and the Social Democrats—The Birth of a Great Movement—Growth of Discontent—Leaders after Lassalle—The Central Idea of the Revolt—American Methods and the Police Position. 17
CHAPTER II.
Dynamite in Politics—Historical Assassinations—Infernal Machines in France—The Inventor of Dynamite—M. Noble and his Ideas—The Nitro-Compounds—How Dynamite is Made—The New French Explosive—"Black Jelley" and the Nihilists—What the Nihilists Believe and What they Want—The Conditions in Russia—The White and the Red Terrors—Vera Sassoulitch—Tourgenieff and the Russian Girl—The Assassination of the Czar—"It is too Soon to Thank God"—The Dying Emperor—Two Bombs Thrown—Running Down the Conspirators—Sophia Perowskaja, the Nihilist Leader—The Handkerchief Signal—The Murder Roll—Tried and Convicted—A Brutal Execution—Five Nihilists Pay the Penalty—Last Words Spoken but Unheard—A Deafening Tattoo—The Book—bomb and the Present Czar—Strychnine-coated Bullets—St. Peter and Paul's Fortress—Dynamite Outrages in England—The Record of Crime—Twenty—nine Convicts and their Offenses—Ingenious Bomb—making—The Failures of Dynamite. 28
CHAPTER III.
The Exodus to Chicago Waiting for an Opportunity A Political Party
Formed A Question of $600,000 The First Socialist Platform Details of the Organ-
ization Work at the Ballot-Box Statistics of Socialist Progress The "Interna-
tional Workingmen's Party" and The " Workingmen's Party of the United States"
The Eleven Commandments of Labor How the Work was to be Done A Curious
Constitution Beginnings of the Labor Press The Union Congress Criticising the
Ballot-Box The Executive Committee and its Powers Annals of 1876 A Period of
Preparation The Great Railroad Strikes of 1877 The First Attack on Society A
Decisive Defeat Trying Politics Again The "Socialistic Party" Its Leaders and
its Aims August Spies as an Editor Buying the Arbeiter-Zeitung How the Money
was Raised Anarchist Campaign Songs The Group Organization Plan of the Prop-
aganda Dynamite First Taught "The Bureau of Information" An Attack on
Arbitration No Compromise with Capital Unity of the Internationalists and the
