Canadian Marxists and the search for a third way / Peter Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, J. Peter, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Winch, Ernest E., 1879-1957.

Winch, Ernest E.

Pritchard, William Arthur, 1888-1981.

Pritchard, William Arthur.

Mould, Arthur, 1879-1961.

Mould, Arthur.

Russell, Robert Boyd, 1888-1964.

Russell, Robert Boyd.

Labor movement--Canada--History.

Labor movement.

Socialists--Canada--Biography.

Socialists.

Labor leaders--Canada--Biography.

Labor leaders.

Physical Description:

x, 303 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Focusing 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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Ernest Edward Winch

William Arthur Pritchard

Arthur Mould

Robert Boyd Russell

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-288) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85806-8

9786612858062

0-7735-6783-6

OCLC:

741349715