British Socialism
An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals
British Socialism, by the journalist and writer on politics J. Ellis Barker, is a large-scale examination and critique of the socialist movement in Edwardian Britain. Barker lets the socialists speak for themselves, quoting at length from Keir Hardie, the Webbs, Hyndman, Blatchford, Shaw, Ramsay MacDonald and many pamphlets and newspapers, and arranges their views by subject: their picture of present and future society, their grievances about rent, interest and profits, their doctrines of surplus value and class war, and their proposals on land, capital, taxation, the empire, the army, the monarchy, local government, agriculture, railways and banking. He then sets out his objections. It is a hostile but extensively documented portrait of a movement on the rise. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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What kind of book is British Socialism?
British Socialism by J. Ellis Barker is filed under "Philosophy" in the Vinteuil library.
