Works of E. Belfort Bax

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E. Belfort Bax

1854 – 1925

Biography by Robert Arch
Biography by Ted Crawford.
Bibliography by Ted Crawford

At the moment the following texts are available either here in the Archive or by links to other Websites:

1880s – 1890s – 1900s – 1910s – 1920s
 

April 1879	The Word “Religion”
August 1879	Modern Socialism
April 1881	The Ideal of the Future (Part 1)
June 1881	The Ideal of the Future (Part 2)
December 1881	Leaders of Modern Thought: XXIII. Karl Marx
1882	Jean Paul Marat: A Historico-Biographical Sketch
September 1883	The Modern Revolution I
September 1883	The Modern Revolution II
January 1884	Bourgeois Economy and School Boards
January 1884	To Our Readers (with J.L. Joynes)
January 1884	Unscientific Socialism
15 January 1884	The Modern Revolution
1 March 1884	The German Press on the Socialist Movement in England
8 March 1884	Dynamite in England
22 March 1884	A Tale of the Paris Slums
21 June 1884	Socialism and Religion
July 1884	A French Economist on Collectivism
July 1884	International Socialism
16 August 1884	Socialism and the Sunday Question
6 December 1884	A “Free Press”
February 1885	Imperialism v. Socialism
March 1885	Gordon and the Soudan
April 1885	At Bay
May 1885	Peace or War?
June 1885	British Foreign Policy
August 1885	The Congo (book review)
October 1885	The Manifesto of The Socialist League (2nd Edition) (with William Morris)
November 1885	Conscience and Commerce
December 1885	Swell “Cracksmen”
1886	A Short Account of the Commune of Paris of 1871 (with Victor Dave & William Morris) (pamphlet)
1886-88	Socialism From The Root Up or Socialism Its Growth & Outcome (with William Morris)
January 1886	The Criminal Court Judge
January 1886	Morocco
February 1886	The Two Enthusiasms: An Answer to Mr. Karl Pearson
March 1886	Looting, Scientific and Unscientific
April 1886	Some Bourgeois Idols; Or Ideals, Reals, and Shams
8 May 1886	Burmah
8/15 May 1886	The Commercial Hearth
22 May 1886	The International Octopus; More Suckers Thrown Out
19 June 1886	Sentimental Brutality
24 July 1886	Civil Law under Socialism: Contract and Libel
7 August 1886	The Fall of Dilke
December 1886	The Religion of Socialism
4 December 1886	Lissagary’s History of the Commune (review)
4 December 1886	The Old Old Story
1887	Introduction to Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations
1887	Will Socialism Benefit the English People? (Debate with Charles Bradlaugh)
January 1887	Reason v. Rhetoric
29 January 1887	Men versus Classes
12 February 1887	The Latest Thing in International Burglary
12 February 1887	The P.M.G. And Cairene Morality
5 March 1887	Church Parades
13/19 March 1887	Criminal Law Under Socialism
9 April 1887	Legality
23 April 1887	Concerning “Justice”
7 May 1887	On Some Forms of Modern Cant
9/16 July 1887	The Morrow of the Revolution
July 1887	Some Heterodox Notes on the Women Question, To-Day
September 1887	The Curse of Civilisation
October 1887	No Misogyny But True Equality, To-Day
November 1887	Doctor Faustus and His Contemporaries
December 1887	Editorial Notes, To-Day
December 1887	Playing to the Gallery, To-Day
January 1888	The St Gallen Congress
April 1888	On Immortality
June 1888	– Et Impera
28 July 1888	Africa
October 1888	A Free Fantasia on Things Divine and Human
August 1889	The Curse of Law
14 November 1889	The Ethics of Socialism
1890	Sketches of the French Revolution
January 1890	The Decay of Pagan Thought
29 March 1890	A Word for the Men (letter)
May 1890	Courage: The Logic, Phenomenology, and History of a Concept
24 October 1890	The International Situation
November 1890	Liberalism versus Socialism
December 1890	The Practical Significance of Philosophy
January 1891	The Economical Basis of History
February 1891	A Socialist’s Notes on Practical Ethics
21 March 1891	Individual Rights Under Socialism
9 May 1891	Personal Explanation (letter)
30 May 1891	The Socialistic Situation
27 June 1891	The German Party: Its Misfortunes and its Faults
December 1891	Fabianism
December 1891	Outlooks From a New Standpoint
16 April 1892	Discipline and Indiscipline
30 April 1892	After the Eight Hours’ Bill
18 June 1892	Internecine Divisions in the Socialist Party
9 July 1892	Stanley Goes Under
9 July 1892	Stanley Must Be Kept Under
29 October 1892	Political and Social Democracy
1893	The Ethics of Socialism
15 April 1893	Two Question-Begging Saws
13 May 1893	The Zurich Resolutions
24 June 1893	Germany Shows The Way
8 July 1893	The Accursed Word of Command
8 July 1893	Royalty and Revolution
19 August 1893	The New International
26 August 1893	Equality, Not Privilege (letter)
18 October 1893	The Rule of the Small Middle Class
25 November 1893	“Reasonable” Social Democracy
1894	German Society at the Close of The Middle Ages
1894	The Paris Commune
19 May 1894	The New Gospel
16 June 1894	Missionary and Mercantile Enterprise
23 June 1894	Laissez Faire Outflanked
1 August 1894	The Natural History of the Non-Conformist Conscience
10 November 1894	The Late Czar
1895	Value
20 April 1895	Dead Sea Fruit
June 1895	“Voluntaryism” versus “Socialism”
8 June 1895	“Religion” and Socialism
27 July 1895	The Woman Question
17 August 1895	Bebel’s Woman and Socialism
24 August 1895	Frederick Engels (obituary)
14 September 1895	International versus National Socialism
19 October 1895	The Cult of Abstractions
30 November 1895	The Everlasting Female Again!
14 December 1895	Aliens
30 December 1895	The Forerunners of Modern Socialism
11 January 1896	Socialist Ethics and Abstinence (letter)
18 January 1896	The Proposed Debate (letter)
15 February 1896	Socialism and Foreign Politics
1 May 1896	The True Aims of “Imperial Extension” and “Colonial Enterprise”
13 June 1896	Idealogic Social Forces
27 June 1896	South Africa Again
October 1896	The synthetic or the neo-Marxist conception of history
November 1896	Our German Fabian Convert; or, Socialism According to Bernstein
November 1896	Eduard Bernstein: Amongst the Philistines – A Rejoinder to Belfort Bax
November 1896	The Socialism of Bernstein
28 November 1896	Our Fabian Philosopher
30 January 1897	Morals, Economics And Politics
13 February 1897	A Word to Herbert Burrows (letter)
May 1897	The Bourgeois Radical Movement and Socialism
1 May 1897	The Decline of Militarism
June 1897	Tom Mann on “Socialism in England.”
July 1897	Some Current Fallacies on the Woman Question
August 1897	Legal Encouragements to Blackmail
4 September 1897	One Reactionary Mass
27 November 1897	Bourgeois Scholarship and “Dangerous” Doctrines
27 November 1897	The “Collective Will” and Law
29 January 1898	Barbarism and Civilisation (letter)
May 1898	Democracy and the Word of Command
1 May 1898	War and Markets
9 July 1898	Marxophobia
6 August 1898	Bismarck
13 August 1898	The Italian Prisoners’ Fund
20 August 1898	Old London Again
October 1898	An Old War Horse
December 1898	In Defence Of Socialism
1899	The Peasant War (Germany)
11 February 1899	English Barrister (letter)
February 1899	A Chat with the Great Aborigines Protectionist
11 February 1899	The True Inwardness of the Peace Crusade
25 February 1899	Cross-Examination (letter)
20 May 1899	Imperial Extensions and Socialist Intentions
27 May 1899	Robespierre (letter)
June 1899	Sexual Ethical Twaddle
10 June 1899	The Maximum (letter)
August 1899	The Ethics of the “Burning Stain”
26 August 1899	Socialism and Dogma
30 September 1899	Socialism and Dogma (letter)
28 October 1899	Jews, Boers and Patriots
4 November 1899	Jews, Boers and Patriots – II
1900	Jean-Paul Marat: The People’s Friend
1900	The Rise and Fall of the Anabapists
January 1900	Treacherous Toleration and Faddist Fanaticism
19 May 1900	British Freedom
26 May 1900	Wanted, A New Morality?
July 1900	A Word With Professor Beesly
25 August 1900	It Must Be – Must It Be?
September 1900	Love Of Country
13 October 1900	Some Reflections on the Paris Congress
27 October 1900	Reflections on Comrade Rickert (letter)
15 January 1901	A Bundle of Fallacies
16 February 1901	Blacks, Whites and “Fads” (letter)
April 1901	Outraged Feminism
1 May 1901	Patriotism
13 July 1901	The Queen’s Hall Meeting (letter)
27 July 1901	Socialism And The Pro-Boer Movement
3 August 1901	Boer, Briton and Zulu
24 August 1901	The Decencies of Controversy (letter)
September 1901	Last Words on “Blacks and Whites”
21 September 1901	Religion v. Ethics (letter)
26 October 1901	How the Governing Classes Write History
2 November 1901	Sentiment and Judicial Murder
7 December 1901	The Death Penalty (letter)
January 1902	Pro-British Arguments
February 1902	Factitious Unity
1 March 1902	Ferri and the Woman Question (letter)
June 1902	The Synthetic or the Neo-Marxist Conception of History
June 1902	Bernstein and the German Party
5 July 1902	Hysterics in Political Discussion (letter)
August 1902	Last Words on the Bernstein Question
30 August 1902	A Personal Explanation (letter)
20 September 1902	A Personal Explanation (letter)
1902	E.B. Bax/G.B. Shaw: An Exchange consisting of:
August 1902	Bax: Shaw and Fabianism (letter)
September 1902	The Synthetic Or the Neo-Marxist Conception of History
November 1902	Shaw: Note on Bax’s Letter (letter)
November 1902	Bax:Rejoinder to Shaw’s Letter (letter)
December 1902	Feminism in extremis
1903	A New Catechism of Socialism (with H. Quelch)
January 1903	The Aims and Limitations of the Materialist Conception of History
20 February 1903	Fossil Remains
30 May 1903	Shall There Be Two Socialist Parties?
September 1903	Clericalism and Socialism
3 October 1903	Class-Consciousness and Class-War
3 October 1903	Man and Superman (review)
7 November 1903	Preaching and Practice
14 November 1903	The Breeding of Genius (letter)
26 December 1903	A Personal Explanation (letter)
1904	Socialism
1904	Value
30 January 1904	Immorality in the Potteries (letter)
27 February 1904	Comrade Hyndman’s War Manifesto (letter)
12 March 1904	Russia and Japan (letter)
16 April 1904	Baneful Fallacy
July 1904	Patriotism: its growth and outcome
16 July 1904	National “Ideals” and the Pest of “Patriotism”
10 September 1904	Liberty and Labour
15 September 1904	Female Suffrage and Its Implications
24 September 1904	The Ethics of Socialism
31 December 1904	Beyond Selfish and Unselfish
14 January 1905	Christianity and Socialism (letter)
4 February 1905	Christianity and Socialism (letter)
16 February 1905	Christianity and Socialism (letter)
May 1905	Anti-alcohol
22 July 1905	Our Foreign Policy (letter)
5 August 1905	Kings and Socialists (letter)
12 August 1905	The Materialist Conception of History (letter)
28 August 1905	Socialism and Asceticism
October 1905	The Economical Theory of History
January 1906	Dogmatic Historics
10 February 1906	Mr. Morley and the “National Workshops” of ’48
31 March 1906	The “National Workshops” of ’48 (letter)
14 April 1906	Morocco (letter)
14 April 1906	Socialist Ethics and Private Charity
2 June 1906	Labour Party Humbug (letter)
June 1906	Materialistic Or Synthetic Historics? Final Words
30 June 1906	Continuity – Voila l’Ennemi!
25 August 1906	Moral Book-Keeping by Double Entry
25 August 1906	Why Attack Religion! (letter)
22 September 1906	Socialism and Religion (letter)
17 November 1906	Socialism and the Family
December 1906	Party Progress and Party Problems
1907	Essays in Socialism: New & Old
26 January 1907	Socialism and the Family (letter)
4 May 1907	Labour Day and Imperialism
18 May 1907	The Rayner Question (letter)
13 July 1907	Patriotism, Militarism and Ethics
20 July 1907	John A. Hobson (review)
14 September 1907	The International Congress and Colonial Policy
5 October 1907	Soleiland and the Death Penalty
18 January 1908	Pity the Poor Papist (letter)
6 June 1908	Internationalism and Bourgeois Foreign Politics
August 1908	Socialism Real and So-Called
29 August 1908	The Case of Gott
13 February 1909	A Socialist Administration
March 1909	A Study in Socialist Heresy-Hunting
May 1909	Why I Am an Anti-Suffragist
15 May 1909	Burrows as Feminist (letter)
31 July 1909	Machiavelli Isn’t In It!
21 August 1909	Contemptible Methods (letter)
September 1909	Women’s Privileges and “Rights”
18 September 1909	A Different Interpretation (letter)
October 1909	Kautsky’s Origins of Christianity (review)
23 October 1909	The Legal Subjection of Men (letter)
19 March 1910	The Gaggers (letter)
30 April 1910	Some Reflections on the International Movement
14 May 1910	Woods on Women (letter)
4 June 1910	Re Woods (letter)
6 August 1910	Thorne and the Police (letter)
20 August 1910	Democracy
17 September 1910	The Right of Asylum (letter)
24 September 1910	Congress Procedure (letter)
3 December 1910	The “Maximum” 1 (letter)
31 December 1910	The “Maximum” 2 (letter)
1911	Gracchus Babeuf and the Conspiracy of the Equals
18 February 1911	Some Considerations on Democracy
29 April 1911	Internationalism
22 July 1911	Patriotism v. Socialism
August 1911	The Essential Socialism 1
9 September 1911	Patriotism v. Socialism (letter)
16 September 1911	The Maximum (letter)
October 1911	The Essential Socialism 2
30 December 1911	The Essential Socialism Again (letter)
1912	Problems of Mind and Morals
20 January 1912	The Marriage Relation Under Socialism (letter)
10 February 1912	Marriage Under Socialism (letter)
30 March 1912	The Suffrage Outrages (letter)
April 1912	Bowing Down in the Temple Of Rimmon
4 May 1912	The Pagan Socialist
29 June 1912	Socialism and the Catholic Church (letter)
July 1912	Jean Jacques Rousseau
6 July 1912	Spargo, Marx and Bax (letter)
17 August 1912	Socialism and Catholicism (letter)
5 October 1912	The International Socialist Congress of 1913 (protest letter signed jointly with H.M. Hyndman & Harry Quelch)
November 1912	Nationalities And Individuals
1913	The Fraud of Feminism
27 September 1913	Harry Quelch (obituary)
October 1913	A Few Reminiscences of August Bebel
1914	Harry Quelch (obituary)
18 January 1914	1884-1914
9 April 1914	The New Religion of the Possessing Classes
16 September 1914	Germany and the Prussian Domination
December 1914	Socialism, Materialism, and the War (with H.M. Hyndman)
28 January 1915	Internationalism and Patriotism
11 February 1915	Organisation versus Principle I
18 February 1915	Organisation versus Principle II
22 April 1915	The German S.D.P. (letter)
6 May 1915	War Reflections – I
13 May 1915	War Reflections – II
1 July 1915	Compulsion (letter)
30 September 1915	The German Situation I
7 October 1915	The German Situation II
6 January 1916	Internationalism, Nationalism and Patriotism
25 May 1916	Internationalism and Anti-Nationalism (letter)
28 September 1916	A Profound Work with a Bad Title (review)
18 January 1917	Law Of Maximum
15 February 1917	F.J. Gould and the Jews
1 March 1917	The Law Of Maximum (letter)
8 March 1917	The Means and the End
22 March 1917	F.J. Gould’s National Socialism
17 May 1917	Plechanoff and the Marxian Historical Theory
26 July 1917	The Law Of Maximum (letter)
20 September 1917	The Law Of Maximum (letter)
29 November 1917	The Law Of Maximum (letter)
1918	Reminiscences and Reflexions of a mid and late Victorian
24 January 1918	The Law Of Maximum (letter)
31 January 1918	The “Herd Instinct”
14 March 1918	Lawyers And Judges
18 April 1918	The Majority as Standard of Value
18 May 1918	Capitalism and the Class War
6 June 1918	Otto Rühle
13 June 1918	Benedetto Croce (review)
27 June 1918	George Plechanoff (obituary)
August 1918	The Modern State, Internationalism, and War
28 November 1918	The Present Situation
19 December 1918	The Woman Question and Marxian Historical Materialism
30 January 1919	Barbarism, Civilisation and Socialism
27 February 1919	Germany and the Political Situation
13 March 1919	Critical Chronicle: The Death Of Kurt Eisner
20 March 1919	The Outlook in Germany
24 April 1919	The Question of “Maximum”
4 September 1919	The Soul of the German People
2 October 1919	Sentiment and the National State
November 1919	Democratic Control and Individual Right
25 December 1919	Huns and Hungarians (letter)
15 January 1920	Capitalist Government and Socialist Administration
19 February 1920	Religion and Labour
26 August 1920	Two Bolshevist Intellectuals (review)
3 February 1921	The Evolution Of Revolution (review)
10 February 1921	1884 and 1921
23 June 1921	The Evolution of Law (review)
22 September 1921	An Industrial Magnate’s Ideal (review)
25 May 1922	Military Service (letter)
22 June 1922	The League of Nations
26 October 1922	“Poison” and Preparedness (review)
8 February 1923	Justice and the Early Days of the SDF
3 May 1923	Socialism and the League of Nations
24 May 1923	Puritanism and Labour
31 May 1923	Socialism and the League of Nations (letter)
14 June 1923	Limits to Majority Rule
14 June 1923	War and the League
28 June 1923	The Consistency Tag
23 August 1923	The Armed Nation (letter)
13 September 1923	The Helpless League
1 January 1924	Forty Years After 1884-1924
10 April 1924	Present Day Enemy Principles
3 July 1924	Labour Party and Puritanism
18 September 1924	League of Nations as a Reality

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