The Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis : Volume 35.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dematagoda, Udith.

Series:

Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2025.

Summary:

Part of the Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis critical edition, which brings together all of Wyndham Lewis's published writings for the first time, this is a scholarly edition of an inflammatory political tract, written by a controversial English modernist writer and painter, which has much relevance to the contemporary moment.

Contents:

Cover

Series Page

The Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis: Left Wings Over Europe: How to Make a War about Nothing and Anti-War Articles 1935

Copyright

Editor's Preface to Volume 35

Acknowledgements

The Oxford Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis

Contents

Left Wings over Europe: or, How to Make a War about Nothing

Foreword

Part One

Chapter I: AS THE 'EXTREMIST OF THE "RIGHT" ' SEES IT

1: Great war no. 2.-As seen by the men of the Centrist Majority, and of the 'Right' and 'Left' Wings, respectively

2: An introduction to the paradoxical outlook of the Extremist of the 'Right'

3: The Terms 'Right', 'Left', and 'Centre'

4: The big soft 'Centre' of the Anglosaxon Democracies and the last General Election

5: 'Great Wars' and 'Great Slumps' Nos. 1 and 2

6: Different attitudes towards Great War No. 2

Chapter II: AS THE PLAIN, BLUNT, DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN SEES IT

1: The Extremists of the 'Left' and 'Right' change places

2: More important than the next War, the next Peace!

3: The plain, blunt, democratic statesman and 'Empire'

4: The democratic 'nationalism' of disintegration

5: What sort of thoughts do the Men in Power think?

6: How the democratic statesman goes one better than the dictators

7: Question-mark! why should Democracies wish to make the World safe for Communism?

8: British Labour finds its principles 'irreconcilable with dictatorship', but National Government principles make an exception, when it is Moscow

9: Democratic crusade against 'fascism'

10: The evidence against the alleged detachment of our statesmen

Chapter III: POWER POLITICS AT A FUNERAL

1: The new 'Entente' with Soviet Russia

2: Russian and British air-baseson the German frontiers?

3: The Demilitarized Zone of the Rhine. ('There is something wrong about Locarno').

4: The Germans half-invitedto take back the Rhine

Chapter IV: THE PRESS OF A MODERN DEMOCRACY-ASSEEN BY LORD BRYCE

1: 'It is the newspaper press that has made democracy possible in large countries.'-Lord Bryce

2: The control of the Press in (1) Democracies: and (2) Totalitarian States

3: Does the Public possess 'the data necessary for forming a fair judgment'?

Postscript to this section

Chapter V: THE TRUTH REGARDING THE' GERMAN MENACE'

1: Must every country, except Germany, have an army, police force, and fire brigade?

2: The Great Depression

3: The hostility of the Western Powers to the National Socialist regime

4: 'It is we who are responsible for creating an atmosphere of fear.'-Lloyd George

5: Three great Empires now allied against Germany

6: 'Everyone is assuming there is but one enemy we have to think of-Germany'

THE STRENGTH OF RUSSIA

COLLECTIVE SECURITY

FRANCE AND LOCARNO: Refusal to Disarm

ANOTHER PLAN NEEDED

7: France's 'unprecedented guarantees' for her security

WAR STRENGTH OF 30,000,000

Chapter VI: AFTER HITLER-WHAT?

1: 'We shall all live happily ever after-onceGermany is for ever destroyed!'

2: Would England be the next Public Enemy No. 1?

3: Japan-or Russia-as the 'Menace'?

4: The other 'problems'-Germany once disposed of

5: The 'Russian Steam-roller'reaches our frontier, the Rhine. And then?

6: Do not let us act as if Hitler were the last phenomenon that was ever going to happen!

7: 'The Interests of England'

8: Democratic Internationalism

Part Two

Chapter I: ABYSSINIA: NOT A WAR BUT A REVOLUTION

1: Open diplomacy versus secret diplomacy

2: The Mediterranean-Danger Spot No. 1

3: Looking back at last year

4: 'Great Adventures' in general

5: A passion-play

6: An 'altogether new form of war'.

7: Abyssinia the beginning of a Fascist world-revolution

8: The stupendous Press-polemic (1) against Germany, (2) against Italy

9: Roman Peace and 'Indivisible Peace'

10: The Red Principle and the Black Principle at war

Chapter II: ABYSSINIA: DRESS REHEARSAL FOR WORLD-WAR

1: What was biting Mr. Baldwin-or who?

2: The Men of the India Bill as 'defenders of Empire'?

3: The Theory that England wished to smash the League

4: Other solutions of the diplomatic cross-word puzzle

5: Mr. Baldwin and the 'Blood Balloters'

6: Finally-the Theory of the Dress-Rehearsal for World War

7: How the Dress-Rehearsal Plan miscarried

8: Objections to the Theory of the Dress-Rehearsal

9: The British Government as unwilling Imperialists

10: The Isolationist view

11: The objection on the score of the 'conservatism' of Mr. Baldwin

12: French Policy, too, has its mysteries

13: Great Britain's alibi

14: The Mystery of British Policy, and the difficulties of the Detective

Chapter III: GREAT BRITAIN GROWS UNPOPULAR

1: The 'All Socialist' situation in England

2: The English and the Scandinavian Peoples

3: What did Mussolini and Laval discuss?

4: Contemporary Europe gone 'Crime Club'

5: 'Britons shall be slaves!'

6: The scramble for power which would follow the downfall of Britain

7: An increasingly Anglophobiac world

8: The great fissure that has appeared in European society in our time

9: Records from the Foreign Press

Part Three

Chapter I: THE RELIGIOUS FACTOR. THE CHURCHES AND THE LEFT WING

1: Do not blame Great Britain, but the Internationalism for which the British Government speaks

2: The Three Acts in the great Hitler Drama

3: Hot-gospelling and War

4: The Salvation Army of the 'Anti-fascist Front'.

5: The 'two voices'-the voice of internationalism and that of nationalism

6: Bourgeois-Bolshevism, Socialism, and War

7: The two Missionaries-Church and Soviet

Chapter II: THE GOD OF JUSTICE AND THE GOD OF LOVE

1: The Man-in-the-street and the Bishops

2: The two religions that we simultaneously practise

3: The 'God of Justice' and the 'God of Love'

4: Marcion's exaltation of the Principle of Forbearance and of Gentleness

Chapter III: ARE YOU FOR THE SUPER-STATE OR ARE YOU FOR THE SOVEREIGN STATE?

1: How long will the stock of post-christian emotionality hold out?

2: Are you for Centralized Government, or for Non-centralized Government?

3: Are you for The Part: or are you for The Whole?

4: It is not only 'fascists' who desire to be free

5: Martial Law, in a 'Dictated Peace'

6: We have no 'dictator', but are we dictated to?

7: 'A good despot'

8: To provide 'a refuge from intolerable evils'

Chapter IV: 'DEMOCRACY' AND 'IMPERIALISM'

1: Dr. Samuel Johnson's opinion of the Parliamentary System

2: The respective compulsions of Democracy and of Authoritarianism

3: What Mr. Baldwin 'knows'

4: Democracy is a jolly word

5: What is an 'imperialist'? The Empire of Soviet Russia and the British Empire

6: By whom are we governed?

7: The tenant of 10 Downing Street who went mad

8: Freedom=Irresponsibility

9: The rigours of true freedom

10: The 'Sense of humour' and the British Democracy

Chapter V: THE 'HAVES' AND THE 'HAVE-NOTS'

1: The two kinds of 'Have-nots'

2: The 'anachronism of war'

3: The anachronism of 'Slump' and Unemployment

4: The 'Have-nots' and the Great Depression

5: Political pressure: Declared boycott, and undeclared Boycott

6: A new economic law

7: Kitchen-politics

8: Germany's paradoxical industrial equipment.

9: The dead hand of Nineteenth-Century Liberalism

10: What is 'a great people'?

11: The substitution of the Abstract for the Concrete

Conclusion

NOTES ON THE WAY [MARCH 2ND 1935]: By WYNDHAM LEWIS

NOTES ON THE WAY [MARCH 9TH 1935]: By WYNDHAM LEWIS

NOTES ON THE WAY [MARCH 16TH 1935]: By WYNDHAM LEWIS

NOTES ON THE WAY [MARCH 23RD 1935]: By WYNDHAM LEWIS

NOTES ON THE WAY [MARCH 30TH 1935]: By WYNDHAM LEWIS

FREEDOM THAT DESTROYS ITSELF: By WYNDHAM LEWIS

REASONING THAT MADE HITLER POSSIBLE

THE BOOK IS FOLLOWING THE FILM STANDARDS

WHAT DO OUR STATESMEN READ?

OUR REPRESSIVE LEFT-WINGORTHODOXY

FIRST-AID FOR THE UNORTHODOX: By WYNDHAM LEWIS

ABBREVIATIONS

Abbreviations used in the Oxford Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis

Books by Wyndham Lewis

Periodicals Edited by Wyndham Lewis

Correspondence

Archives

AFTERWORD

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II

III

Notes

EXPLANATORY NOTES

Left Wings over Europe

NOTES ON THE WAY, MARCH 2nd, 1935

NOTES ON THE WAY, MARCH 9th, 1935

NOTES ON THE WAY, MARCH 16th, 1935

NOTES ON THE WAY, MARCH 23rd, 1935

NOTES ON THE WAY, MARCH 30th, 1935

Freedom that destroys itself

First-aidfor the unorthodox

DUSTWRAPPER TEXTS for Left Wings over Europe

VARIANTS

A CHRONOLOGY OF WYNDHAM LEWIS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX.

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ISBN:

0-19-198789-1

0-19-887646-7

OCLC:

1543219197