Anarchist seeds beneath the snow : left-libertarian thought and British writers from William Morris to Colin Ward
From William Morris to Oscar Wilde to George Orwell, left-libertarian thought has long been an important but neglected part of British cultural and political history. Goodway argues that a recovered anarchist tradition could – and should – be a touchstone for contemporary political radicals.
History
xi, 401 p. ; 24 cm.
9781846310256, 9781846310263, 1846310253, 1846310261
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AcknowledgementsAbbreviations1 Introduction2 Anarchism and libertarian socialism in Britain: William Morris and the background, 1880-19203 Edward Carpenter4 Oscar Wilde5 John Cowper Powys 1: His life-philosophy and individualist anarchism6 The Spanish Revolution and Civil War - and the case of George Orwell7 John Cowper Powys II: The impact of Emma Goldman and Spain8 Herbert Read9 War and pacifism10 Aldous Huxley11 Alex Comfort12 Nuclear disarmament, the New Left - and the case of E.P Thompson13 Christopher Pallis14 Colin Ward15 ConclusionBibliographyIndex