Note 505 — Chapter II · : SAINT-SIMON, THE SAINT-SIMONIANS, AND THE BEGINNINGS OF COLLECTIVISM

It is impossible not to make a special mention of Anton Menger’s excellent little book. Das Recht auf den vollen Arbeitsertrag (1886) (the English translation, with an excellent introduction by Professor Foxwell, is unfortunately out of print). It is indispensable in any history of socialism. We must also mention, with deep acknowledgments, Pareto’s Les Systèmes socialistes (Paris, 1902, 2 vols.)—the most originally critical work yet published on this subject, though not always the most impartial—and Bourguin’s Les Systèmes socialistes et l’Évolution économique (Paris, 1906), as containing the most scientific criticism of the economic theories of socialism.