SOCIALISME - Emile VANDERVELDE (1866-1938, Belgian politicia - Lot 181

SOCIALISME - Emile VANDERVELDE (1866-1938, Belgian politician, leading figure in Socialism, founder and President of the Socialist Workers' International) / Autograph manuscript signed, with erasures and corrections, 7 p in-7, entitled "Karl Marx and Balzac", 1930s: "if some foreigner were to ask me what one should read to get a political and social idea of what the French landscape was like in the aftermath of the Revolution, and what it has subsequently become, I would be tempted to reply: before tackling larger works, read, in chronological order 1° Balzac's Peasants, 2° Karl Marx's XVIII Brumaire de Louis Bonaparte, 3° the introduction to André Siegfried's Tableau des partis en France".