Essential Works of SocialismEssential Works of Socialism is the most authoritative one volume collection of major socialist writings to appear in English. Edited by Irving Howe, the well known social historian and literary critic, it not only includes classic statements by Marx, Engels, Bukharin, Plekhanov, Lenin, Luxemburg, and Trotsky, but also analysis, polemic, and re evaluations from such varied figures as Djilas, Silone, Ricoeur, Lichtheim, Orwell, Buber, Kolakowski, Cole,