
John Spargo. Socialist Readings for Children. New York, The Woman’s National Progressive League, 1909.
Look at how happy those children are. They have health care and will get a good education.
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The book is available to read at The Internet Archive
I know someone who absolutely would go mad with joy if they had a copy.
Ok…. some searching indicates that Spargo is a really interesting character. Also, he did another book The Bitter Cry of The Children… It was on amazon.com for $5 until someone bought it just now.
And oops, Spargo appears to have been an anti-semite: abe. So much for the idea that socialism is a jewish enterprise, huh?
So, I guess that Spargo’s intellectual rigor was only skin-deep.
Marcus,
I’m not so sure about the anti-semitism charge. The reviews on Amazon of his book The Jew and American Ideals call him a defender of the Jews:
and
Both reviews are by Christian sources so they could be suspect, but it appears that Spargo thought that anti-semitism was an un-Christian way to behave and thus obliquely supported the Jews