Canadian Marxists and the Search for a Third WayFocusing on four individuals, Canadian Marxists and the Search for a Third Way describes the lives and ideas of Ernest Winch, Bill Pritchard, Bob Russell, and Arthur Mould and examines their efforts to put their ideas into practice. Campbell begins by looking at their childhoods in Great Britain, particularly their religious upbringing. He considers their family life, their attitudes toward women and ethnic minorities, what they were reading, and what effect that reading had on their theory and practice. He describes their lives as labor leaders and advocates of socialism, revealing how tenaciously, in an increasingly hierarchical, bureaucratized, and state-driven capitalist society, they held to the idea that socialism must be created by the working class itself. This is a unique look at four Canadian Marxists and their struggle to create an educated, disciplined, democratic, mass-based movement for revolutionary change. |
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Ernest Edward Winch The Administrator of Class Struggle | 31 |
William Arthur Pritchard The Marxist as Worker Intellectual | 73 |
Arthur Mould The Conscience of Class Conflict | 124 |
Robert Boyd Russell The Search for a Third Way | 168 |
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