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Save me -- Maxton Hall book 1. 285 Pages. Save me -- Maxton Hall book 1. Save me -- Maxton Hall book 1. ... See Full PDF Download PDF. See Full PDF ...
- Maria Rotaru
socialist James Maxton of the Independent Labour Party, writing from his vantage point in 1932, found himself compelled to make choices of emphasis, analysis and language that SSP members would not necessarily make today.
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Save You -- Maxton Hall book 2. 260 Pages. Save You -- Maxton Hall book 2. Save You -- Maxton Hall book 2. Save You -- Maxton Hall book 2. ... See Full PDF ...
- Maria Rotaru
- Ideological Purity
- The ILP’s Failure
- Utopian Fool?
Hughes’ obituary was, and remains, premature, but on at least one level Maxton had failed and would have been the first to admit it. He had set out to transform the ILP from a high-minded pressure group into a crusade for proletarian emancipation, from a propaganda society into an instrument for the overthrow of capitalism. He ended his career as a...
Why did he fail? His failure was also that of the ILP. A party of activists, it was strong on enthusiasm and skilled in propaganda but outside Scotland and perhaps Lancashire it had never recruited the mass support of the trades union movement in the way the Labour Party did in 1945. Only rarely did the ILP succeed in convincing the trades union de...
Maxton often spoke of himself as “a utopian fool”. Mankind, he believed, was “infinitely better than the social system within which it lives”. It was his faith in the capabilities of ordinary people, a faith born of his experiences as a teacher, that led him to advocate a social and economic democracy in which everyone played a part in making the d...
by Mona Kasten. 3.85 · 45,651 Ratings · 2,845 Reviews · published 2018 · 31 editions. Können sie sich retten? Oder werden sie sich gegen…. Want to Read. Rate it: Save Me (Maxton Hall, #1), Save You (Maxton Hall, #2), and Save Us (Maxton Hall, #3)
This biography of Maxton sets out in detail not only the political journey of the young Caledonian from naive schoolteacher to revolutionary Parliamentarian, but also seeks to relate a time of unparalelled global social upheavel with the strife of the working classes in Glasgow and subsequent growth of the Independent Labour Party in response.
- Gordon Brown
Maxton: A Biography. Paperback – 26 Sept. 2002. by Gordon Brown (Author) 4.3 5 ratings. See all formats and editions. James Maxton was Britain's most charismatic socialist politician of the inter-war period, seen by many as a potential Prime Minister.
- Gordon Brown
