Author: Sanial, Lucien [1836-1927]
Title: Territorial Expansion : Together with Statistics on the Growth of Socialism in America.
Description: New York, New York Labor News Company, n.d. [1901?]. orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, 24 pp. Rubberstamp to cover. Cover title.. Rubbed. Small chip to cover corner edge. Good. ¶ Marxist economic analysis of American imperialist ambitions ca. 1898. Pages 13-24 -- headed "Socialist Labor Party. Election Returns for 1898" --are in tabular format. ["Sanial was a pioneer of Marxist ideas in America He was born in France as Lucien Delabarre. Sent by a French newspaper to report on the American Civil War, he settled in the US, where he became active in the labor movement as an advocate of the formation of an independent working-class party. In 1877, he joined the Socialistic Labor Party (the forerunner of the DeLeonist Socialist Labor Party). Even before De Leon joined in 1890, he was one of the prominent members of the Marxist wing that won control of the party in 1889. He was the first editor, from 1891-2, of the SLP paper, The People, the SLP candidate for the mayor of New York in 1896, and a delegate to the Congresses of the Second International. He resigned from the SLP in 1902 and, in 1903, joined the Socialist Party of America. In 1917 supported the entry of the USA into World War One. Described by Everard in Jack London’s Iron Heel as 'one of the statistical authorities of that time'" - Marxist Writers website].

Keywords: American Political History, Socialist Labor, Politics Party, United States, Socialism Colonial, Imperialism, Colonialism, Economic Economy, Territorial, Expansion