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The Lost Literature of Socialism - 2nd Edition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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The Lost Literature of Socialism - 2nd Edition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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A hard-hitting and controversial examination of the foundation
texts of socialism. Drawing on an impressive range of sources from
John Millar to Ken Livingstone, Watson lifts the lid off decades of
sloppy scholarship and deliberate suppression to how closely
socialism was linked to racist and genocidal ideas. He shows that
socialism was often a conservative, nostalgic reaction to the
radicalism of capitalism, and not always supposed to be
advantageous to the poor. There have even been socialist monarchs -
Napoleon III was one. The book includes a study of Hitler's claim
that 'the whole of National Socialism' was based on Marx, and it
analyses the common theoretical basis of the dogmas of Stalin and
Hitler which led to the death camps. As a literary critic the
author's concern is to pay due respect to the works of the founding
fathers of socialism, to attend to what they say rather than to
what their modern disciples wish they had said. The book forces the
reader to abandon long-standing assumptions in political thought,
enabling a genuine debate to be revived. George Watson is a Fellow
in English at St John's College, Cambridge, and the general editor
of the 'New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'. He is
the author of studies in political literature and critical history
including 'The Story of the Novel', 'Never Ones for Theory' and
'Take Back the Past'. 'The literature of socialism is lost only in
the sense of not having been read for a very long time. George
Watson has been re-reading this literature as a professional
literary critic, with strong interests in both political affairs
and the history of ideas. Many of his findings are extraordinary.'
Antony Flew
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