The following piece of writing is an off-print of part of my work Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science, and contains three chapters that bear the title "The Force Theory".[419] They have already appeared separately in Russian translation, namely as the appendix to the Russian edition of my Socialism: Utopian and Scientific* Only the most necessary changes and addenda have been made in the present edition. But an off-print requires a special addendum.
If I publish in German a pamphlet on "the role of force in history", the German reader has every right to expect me not to conceal my views on the very important part played by force precisely in his own history over the past thirty years. For this reason I have added a fourth section, which naturally covers only the main points. Perhaps I shall be granted the opportunity one day to deal with the subject in more detail.
Endnotes
[419] See present edition, Vol. 25, pp. 146-71.