Contemporary Thought on Nineteenth Century Socialism PDF
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CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT ON NINETEENTH CENTURY SOCIALISM CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT ON NINETEENTH CENTURY SOCIALISM General Editors Peter Gurney and Kevin Morgan Volume IV Anglo-Marxists Edited by Kevin Morgan First published 2021 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2021 selection and editorial matter, Kevin Morgan; individual owners retain copyright in their own material. The right of Kevin Morgan to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 978-1-138-49019-2 (set) eISBN: 978-1-351-03570-5 (set) ISBN: 978-1-138-32105-2 (volume IV) eISBN: 978-0-429-45232-1 (volume IV) Typeset in Times New Roman by Apex CoVantage, LLC Publisher’s Note References within each chapter are as they appear in the original complete work CONTENTS Introduction: the Anglo-Marxists 1 KEVIN MORGAN PART 1 The idea of socialism 17 1 Socialism Made Plain. Being the Social and Political Manifesto of the Democratic Federation (Democratic Federation, 1883) 19 2 “The Manifesto of the Socialist League”, Commonweal, February 1885, 1–2. 24 3 “Anarchism”, Justice, 8, 22, 29 November and 6 December 1884. 29 CHARLOTTE WILSON 4 “Why Not?”, Justice, 12 April 1884. 38 WILLIAM MORRIS 5 The Man with the Red Flag (London: Twentieth Century Press, 1886), 3–12. 42 JOHN BURNS 6 “How I became a Socialist”, Justice, 30 June 1894. 51 WALTER CRANE v CONTENTS 7 Social Democracy or Democratic Socialism (Social Democratic Federation: Salford District Council, 1895), 3–6, 15–16. 55 H.W. HOBART 8 “Social-democrat or socialist?”, Social Democrat, August 1897, 228–231. 59 H.M. HYNDMAN 9 Socialism and Art (Social Democratic Federation, 1907), 5–16. 65 JACK C. SQUIRE PART 2 Concepts of political change 75 10 “How the Change Came” from News from Nowhere, chapter 17, reprinted in Commonweal, 17, 24 and 31 May 1890. 77 WILLIAM MORRIS 11 An Anti-Statist, Communist Manifesto, International Revolutionary Library, 1887, 2–22. 86 JOSEPH LANE 12 The Co-Partnership Snare (Twentieth Century Press, c. 1913), 1–3, 14–16. 101 HARRY QUELCH 13 “Social-Democrats and the Administration of the Poor Law”, Social Democrat, January 1897, 14–18. 106 GEORGE LANSBURY 14 “Long Live Syndicalism!”, The Syndicalist, May 1912. 112 EDWARD CARPENTER PART 3 Political economy 115 15 “The Iron Law of Wages”, Justice, 15 March 1884, 3. 117 H.M. HYNDMAN vi CONTENTS 16 Socialism and Slavery (1884), Social Democratic Federation (London: Twentieth Century Press, 1899 edn), 3–15. 120 H.M. HYNDMAN 17 Useful Work Versus Useless Toil (1885), Hammersmith Socialist Society, 1893 edn, 3–12, 19. 132 WILLIAM MORRIS 18 “The Reward of ‘Genius’”, Commonweal, 25 September 1886, 205–206. 142 WILLIAM MORRIS 19 “The Great Money Trick” from The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1914), ch. 21. 146 ROBERT TRESSELL PART 4 Work and social conditions 155 20 What a Compulsory Eight-hour Day Means to the Workers (London: Modern Press, 1886). 157 TOM MANN 21 Unemployment: Its Causes and Consequences (London: Twentieth Century Press, 1906), 5–16. 168 COUNTESS OF WARWICK 22 Prison Reform from a Social-Democratic Point of View (London: Twentieth Century Press, 1909), 1–14. 177 DORA B. MONTEFIORE 23 Social-Democracy and the Housing Problem (London: Twentieth Century Press, 1900), 3–4, 6–7, 22–24. 189 F.O. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE PART 5 Ways of organising 197 24 “Organised Labour. The Duty of the Trades Unions in Relation to Socialism”, Commonweal, 14, 21 and 28 August 1886. 199 THOMAS BINNING vii CONTENTS 25 “Social Democracy and Industrial Organisation”, Social Democrat, 15 April 1910. 211 HARRY QUELCH 26 “Prepare for Action”, Industrial Syndicalist, July 1910, 31–54. 216 TOM MANN 27 “Leadermania”, Justice, 13 November 1897, 2. 229 T. HUNTER PART 6 Democracy and the state 235 28 “The Will of the Majority”, in The Ethics of Socialism (London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1889), 120–128. 237 ERNEST BELFORT BAX 29 “Workmen’s Jubilee Ode”, Social Democrat, February 1897. 243 HENRY SALT 30 “After the Jubilee”, Justice, 16 October 1897, 2. 246 31 “The ‘Monstrous Regiment’ of Womanhood”, in Essays in Socialism New and Old (London: Grant Richards, 1906), 276–279, 282–294. 248 ERNEST BELFORT BAX 32 “Why I Am Opposed to Female Suffrage”, Social Democrat, April 1909. 257 DORA MONTEFIORE PART 7 The new religion and the old 263 33 “The Socialist Conception of Ethics”, in A New Catechism of Socialism (London: Twentieth Century Press, 1902), 22–30. 265 E. BELFORT BAX AND H. QUELCH viii CONTENTS 34 “A Christmas Sermon which the Bishop of London has been asked to Preach in Westminster Abbey on Sunday, December 25”, Justice, 24 December 1887, 4. 273 HERBERT BURROWS 35 Socialism and the Survival of the Fittest (London: Twentieth Century Press [c. 1891], third edition, 1910), 1–17. 277 J. CONNELL 36 Was Jesus a Socialist? ([1891], Huddersfield: Worker Office, C. 1908), 1–15. 294 JAMES LEATHAM 37 “Simplification of Life”, in England’s Ideal (Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co, 1887), 79–99. 309 EDWARD CARPENTER PART 8 Gender, sexuality, family and personal relations 323 38 “The Commercial Hearth”, Commonweal, 8 May 1886, 42 and 15 May 1886, 50. 325 ERNEST BELFORT BAX 39 Some Words to Socialist Women, Social Democratic Party Women’s Committee (London: Twentieth Century Press, 1908), 5–16. 333 DORA B. MONTEFIORE 40 The Future of Woman (London: Twentieth Century Press, 1909), 1–14. 345 HERBERT BURROWS 41 Socialism and Eugenics (London: Twentieth Century Press, 1911), 1–15. 359 GEORGE WHITEHEAD ix
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