Stanley Pierson. British Socialists. The Journey from Fantasy to Politics.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979.
410 páginas.
Contents
Introduction
Part One
THE ORIGINS AND EARLY YEARS OF THE MOVEMENT
1 – The “Divided Consciousness” and the Emergence of British Socialism
The Victorian Social Structure
The Cultural Background
The Differentiation of the Socialist Ideology
Part Two
POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT AND DEEPENING DILEMMAS
2 – Ethical Socialism, 1900-1905: The Parting of the Ways
The ILP and the Alliance with the Trade Unions
Three Modes of Political Accommodation: Hardie, Glasier, and MacDonald
Critics within the ILP: Hartley and Hobson
Blatchford’s War on Christianity
3 – Social Democrats and Fabians: Questions of Scope and Strategy
Divisions among the Social Democrats, 1900-1905
The Scope of Fabianism: Webb versus Wallas
The Two Worlds of George Bernard Shaw
The Utopian as Fabian: H. G. Wells
Part Three
ETHICAL SOCIALISTS AND THE POLITICAL PROCESS
4 – Ethical Socialism, 1906-1908: The Climax
The Socialist Revival
Victor Grayson and the Colne Valley Campaign
The Socialist Clergymen
Socialists and Parliamentary Politics, 1906-1908
5 – The Exhaustion of Ethical Socialism
The Crisis of the ILP, 1908-1909
The Dilemmas of Leadership: Hardie, Glasier, and MacDonald
Grayson: A “Despiritualized Fury”
The Disillusionment of the Clergy and Christian Reappraisals of Socialism
A.R. Orage: The Transvaluation of Ethical Socialism
6 – Ethical Socialists: The Retreat from Politics
The Rejection of Collectivism: Guild Socialism
Orage: An Editor’s Progress
Beyond Ethical Socialism: The Ways of Gill, Muir, and Read
Part Four
THE TRIUMPH OF PARLIAMENTARY POLITICS OVER SOCIAL DEMOCRACY AND FABIANISM
7 – British Marxists: From Social Democracy to Communism
Ploughing the Political Sands, 1906-1910
An Alternative Path: The Socialist Labour Party
The Challenge of Syndicalism
World War I and the Fragmentation of Social Democracy
The End of Social Democracy: The Two Ways of Maclean and Hyndman
8 – The Fabian Conversion to Party Politics
Fabian Dissenters, 1906-1908
The Political Education of the Webbs
Shaw: The Triumph of the Prophetic Mission
Fabians and the Labour Party
Conclusion
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