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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: the Anglo-Marxists -- Part 1 The idea of socialism -- 1 Socialism Made Plain. Being the Social and Political Manifesto of the Democratic Federation (Democratic Federation, 1883) -- 2 "The Manifesto of the Socialist League", Commonweal, February 1885, 1-2. -- 3 "Anarchism", Justice, 8, 22, 29 November and 6 December 1884. -- 4 "Why Not?", Justice, 12 April 1884. -- 5 The Man with the Red Flag (London: Twentieth Century Press, 1886), 3-12. -- 6 "How I became a Socialist", Justice, 30 June 1894.

7 Social Democracy or Democratic Socialism (Social Democratic Federation: Salford District Council, 1895), 3-6, 15-16. -- 8 "Social-democrat or socialist?", Social Democrat, August 1897, 228-231. -- 9 Socialism and Art (Social Democratic Federation, 1907), 5-16. -- Part 2 Concepts of political change -- 10 "How the Change Came" from News from Nowhere, chapter 17, reprinted in Commonweal, 17, 24 and 31 May 1890. -- 11 An Anti-Statist, Communist Manifesto, International Revolutionary Library, 1887, 2-22. -- 12 The Co-Partnership Snare (Twentieth Century Press, c. 1913), 1-3, 14-16.

13 "Social-Democrats and the Administration of the Poor Law", Social Democrat, January 1897, 14-18. -- 14 "Long Live Syndicalism!", The Syndicalist, May 1912. -- Part 3 Political economy -- 15 "The Iron Law of Wages", Justice, 15 March 1884, 3. -- 16 Socialism and Slavery (1884), Social Democratic Federation (London: Twentieth Century Press, 1899 edn), 3-15. -- 17 Useful Work Versus Useless Toil (1885), Hammersmith Socialist Society, 1893 edn, 3-12, 19. -- 18 "The Reward of 'Genius'", Commonweal, 25 September 1886, 205-206.

19 "The Great Money Trick" from The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1914), ch. 21. -- Part 4 Work and social conditions -- 20 What a Compulsory Eight-hour Day Means to the Workers (London: Modern Press, 1886). -- 21 Unemployment: Its Causes and Consequences (London: Twentieth Century Press, 1906), 5-16. -- 22 Prison Reform from a Social-Democratic Point of View (London: Twentieth Century Press, 1909), 1-14. -- 23 Social-Democracy and the Housing Problem (London: Twentieth Century Press, 1900), 3-4, 6-7, 22-24. -- Part 5 Ways of organising

24 "Organised Labour. The Duty of the Trades Unions in Relation to Socialism", Commonweal, 14, 21 and 28 August 1886. -- 25 "Social Democracy and Industrial Organisation", Social Democrat, 15 April 1910. -- 26 "Prepare for Action", Industrial Syndicalist, July 1910, 31-54. -- 27 "Leadermania", Justice, 13 November 1897, 2. -- Part 6 Democracy and the state -- 28 "The Will of the Majority", in The Ethics of Socialism (London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1889), 120-128. -- 29 "Workmen's Jubilee Ode", Social Democrat, February 1897. -- 30 "After the Jubilee", Justice, 16 October 1897, 2.

31 "The 'Monstrous Regiment' of Womanhood", in Essays in Socialism New and Old (London: Grant Richards, 1906), 276-279, 282-294.

For historians of the international labour movement, the decades before 1914 were the golden age of Marxist thought. In this flowering of socialist thinking, Britain seemingly had no part, and the question has been asked instead: Why was there was no Marxism in Britain?' The selections in this volume confirm that Marxist ideas in Britain were not always pitched at the highest theoretical level. There are also examples of the reductionism to which leading exponents were sometimes prone. Nevertheless, there is also a richness and outspokenness across wide and varied themes that belies the caricature of arid economic determinism. Marxists believed they carried on the tradition of home-grown movements of struggle such as Chartism. They also identified with the new spirit of internationism whose ideas and personalities filled the pages of their periodicals. Behind such well-known names as William Morris, James Connolly and Tom Mann, a wider movement of contrarians remains to be discovered.

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