Reformers rather than marxists. Henry M. Hyndman and Henry George: Two intellectual biographies during the prodigious decade of English socialism (1880-1890)

Authors

  • Félix Aguirre Universidad de Valparaíso

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18042/hp.39.07

Keywords:

History of political thought, intellectual history, English socialism, English reformism, Henry M. Hyndmann, Henry George.

Abstract

This work draws from two political biographies to summarize a moment in the intellectual debate about English Socialism during nineteenth century, to review a period that it goes from the emergence of the first party self-identified as “socialist” in the country, in 1881, to the publication of Fabian Essays, in 1889, when collectivist ideas drive a crucial generational change in the Fabian Society, central to understand the emergence of the Labour Party. We suggest that the English Socialist tradition is not based solely in a position about the coupling between the relations of production and political decision-making, but also in the championship of a number of values that are not exclusive of a particular ideological tradition, but are somehow visible in the intellectual environment of the period.

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Author Biography

Félix Aguirre , Universidad de Valparaíso

Doctor en Ciencias Políticas y Sociología por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Profesor Titular de la Universidad de Valparaíso (Facultad de Humanidades, Instituto de Sociología). Director Alterno del Núcleo de Investigación sobre Cultura Política Contemporánea y Espacio Público y Miembro Permanente del Claustro del Doctorado en Estudios Interdisciplinarios de la Universidad de Valparaíso (www.dei.cl). Durante estos últimos cinco años ha publicado diferentes trabajos relacionados con el área de investigación de la Cultura Política Contemporánea, que pueden encontrarse en las siguientes revistas de corriente principal: Revista Polis (SCIELO Chile); Revista Mexicana de Sociología (SCIELO México); Sociología e Política (SCOPUS Brasil); The Journal of Language and Politics (ISI-WOS Reino Unido); y Revista Ideas y Valores (ISI-WOS Colombia).

Published

2018-04-17

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STUDIES

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