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CB on Socialism and War
01/01/10 15:02 Filed in: press comment
“Socialism in Europe”
The Review of Reviews 1:6
June, 1890
p. 492
Text of Quote:
(source: Proquest)
Comment: Interesting prediction. Did any of the socialists see this? The conservatives? How original was Bradlaugh's analysis, I wonder?
It’s going to take a close reading of Bradlaugh’s articles and especially his offhand comments and political asides in the mainstream press, The National Reformer and possibly Our Corner, to decide whether he really changed over this period, or if the world changed around him. Probably a little of both. Moral? Old radicals aren’t the same people they were in their youths. Or, one decade’s hero is another decade’s out of touch old fogey? Or, somewhere along the way, the left stopped making sense?
The Review of Reviews 1:6
June, 1890
p. 492
Text of Quote:
(source: Proquest)
Comment: Interesting prediction. Did any of the socialists see this? The conservatives? How original was Bradlaugh's analysis, I wonder?
It’s going to take a close reading of Bradlaugh’s articles and especially his offhand comments and political asides in the mainstream press, The National Reformer and possibly Our Corner, to decide whether he really changed over this period, or if the world changed around him. Probably a little of both. Moral? Old radicals aren’t the same people they were in their youths. Or, one decade’s hero is another decade’s out of touch old fogey? Or, somewhere along the way, the left stopped making sense?
