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Marx, Engels and Modern British Socialism: The Social and Political Thought of H. M. Hyndman, E. B. Bax and William Morris

Marx, Engels and Modern British Socialism: The Social and Political Thought of H. M. Hyndman, E. B. Bax and William Morris

by Seamus Flaherty
Marx, Engels and Modern British Socialism: The Social and Political Thought of H. M. Hyndman, E. B. Bax and William Morris

Marx, Engels and Modern British Socialism: The Social and Political Thought of H. M. Hyndman, E. B. Bax and William Morris

by Seamus Flaherty

Overview

This book is a reception study of Karl Marx’s and Friedrich Engels’ ideas in Britain during the late nineteenth century and a revisionist account of the emergence of modern British socialism. It reconstructs how H. M. Hyndman, E. B. Bax, and William Morris interacted with Marx and ‘Marxism’. It shows how Hyndman was a socialist of liberal and republican provenance, rather than the Tory radical he is typically held to be; how Bax was a sophisticated thinker and highly influential figure in European socialist circles, rather than a negligible pedant; and it shows how Morris’s debt to Bax and liberalism has not been given its due. It demonstrates how John Stuart Mill, in particular, was combined with Marx in Britain; it illuminates other liberal influences which help to explain the sectarian attitude adopted by the Social Democratic Federation towards organised labour; and it establishes an alternative genealogy for Fabian socialism. 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783030423391
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 05/20/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 627 KB

About the Author

Seamus Flaherty is an independent scholar. He has taught widely across modern history and the history of ideas, and he has published his research in the History of European Ideas, Modern Intellectual History and The English Historical Review.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Remaking of British Socialism.- Part 1: Origins.- Chapter 2: ‘A Certain Hyndman’: ‘Tory Radical’ or ‘Freethinking Gentleman-Republican’?.- Chapter 3: Socialism in the Periodical Press: The Origins of Modern British Socialism.- Chapter 4: The Democratic Federation and England for All.- Chapter 5: ‘A Real Enthusiasm for the New Ideas’: Bax, Marx, Comte, and Spencer.- Part 2: Hyndman.- Chapter 6: Scientific Socialism: Hyndman, Engels, Morley, and Morris.- Chapter 7: Wealth and Ability: Hyndman, Mallock, Toynbee, and George.- Part 3: Bax.- Chapter 8: ‘True Marxian Theory’: The Synthetic Conception of History and The Religion of Socialism.- Chapter 9: ‘Historical Agnosticism’: Bax, Engels, and Classical German Philosophy .- Chapter 10: Liberalism Versus Socialism: Republicanism, Rights, and Representative Democracy.- Part 4: Morris.- Chapter 11: ‘Sentimental Socialism’? Morris, Marx, Engels, and Mill.- Chapter 12. Conclusion.
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