Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: British Marxism in Philosophy, Science, and Culture Before the New Left

British Marxism in Philosophy, Science, and Culture
Before the New Left:
Essential Historical Surveys

Compiled by Ralph Dumain

Bounds, Philip. British Communism and the Politics of Literature, 1928-1939. London: Merlin Press, 2012.

Bounds, Philip. Orwell and Marxism: The Political and Cultural Thinking of George Orwell. London: I. B. Tauris, 2009.

Bounds, Philip; Berry, David; eds. British Marxism and Cultural Studies: Essays on a Living Tradition. London; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Notes on a Living Tradition, (Philip Bounds)
1. Science, Art and Dissent: Jack Lindsay and the Communist Theory of Culture, (Philip Bounds)
2. The New Left and the Emergence of Cultural Studies, (Alan O’Connor)
3. Dialectics and the Fate of the Creative Individual: C.L.R. James, (David Berry)
4. From Folk to Jazz: Eric Hobsbawm, British Communism and Cultural Studies, (Philip Bounds)
5. The Gramscian Turn in British Cultural Studies: From the Birmingham School to Cultural Populism, (Steven Jones)
6. Blind Spots: Re-reading Althusser and Lacan in Cultural Studies, (Jason Barker)
7. Profit and Power: British Marxists on the Political Economy of the Media, (Enda Brophy and Vincent Mosco)
8. Them and Us in Contemporary Cultural Studies: Julian Stallabrass, Mike Wayne, Ben Watson, (David Renton)
Index

Caesar, Adrian. Dividing Lines: Poetry, Class, and Ideology in the 1930s. Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.

Clark, John et al, eds. Culture and Crisis in Britain in the Thirties. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1979.

	Acknowledgements	6
	Foreword	7
James Klugmann	Introduction: The Crisis in the Thirties: A View from the Left	13
Iain Wright	F. R. Leavis, the Scrutiny Movement and the Crisis	37
David Margolies	Left Review and Left Literary Theory	67
Arnold Kettle	W. H. Auden: Poetry and Politics in the Thirties	83
Margot Heinemann	Louis MacNeice, John Cornford and Clive Branson: Three Left-Wing Poets	103
Peter Widdowson	Between the Acts? English Fiction in the Thirties	133
Carole Snee	Working-Class Literature or Proletarian Writing?	165
Betty Reid	The Left Book Club in the Thirties	193
André van Gyseghem	British Theatre in the Thirties: An Autobiographical Record	209
Jon Clark	Agitprop and Unity Theatre: Socialist Theatre in the Thirties	219
Ralph Bond	Cinema in the Thirties: Documentary Film and the Labour Movement	241
Bert Hogenkamp	‘Making Films with a Purpose’: Film-making and the Working Class	257
	Notes on Contributors	271
	Name and title index	273

Croft, Andy, ed. A Weapon in the Struggle: The Cultural History of the Communist Party in Britain. London; Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 1998.

1. James Barke: A Great-hearted Writer, a Hater of Oppression, a True Scot / H. Gustav Klaus
2. To Disable the Enemy: the Graphic Art of the Three Jameses / Robert Radford
3. Heirs to the Pageant: Mass Spectacle and the Popular Front / Mick Wallis
4. Notes From the Left: Communism and British Classical Music / Richard Hanlon and Mike Waite
5. Sylvia Townsend Warner in the 1930s / Maroula Joannou
6. An Intellectual Irrelevance? Marxist Literary Criticism in the 1930s / Hanna Behrend
7. King Street Blues: Jazz and the Left in Britain in the 1930s-1940s / Kevin Morgan
8. The Boys Round the Corner: the Story of Fore Publications / Andy Croft
9. The Edinburgh People’s Festival, 1951-54 / Hamish Henderson
10. ‘The World’s Ill-Divided’: the Communist Party and Progressive Song / Gerald Porter
11. The Sunshine of Socialism: the CPGB and Film in the 1950s / Bert Hogenkamp
Afterword / Paul Hogarth

Dworkin, Dennis. Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain: History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997.

Fox, Pamela. Class Fictions: Shame and Resistance in the British Working-Class Novel, 1890-1945. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994.

Kaye, Harvey J. The British Marxist Historians: An Introductory Analysis. New York: Polity Press, 1984.

Macintyre, Stuart. A Proletarian Science: Marxism in Britain 1917-1933. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.

Pierson, Stanley. Marxism and the Origins of British Socialism: The Struggle for a New Consciousness. Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press, 1973.

Rée, Jonathan. Proletarian Philosophers: Problems in Socialist Culture in Britain, 1900-1940. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984.

Roberts, Edwin A. The Anglo-Marxists: A Study in Ideology and Culture. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997.

Note “Postscript: Christopher Caudwell, Ghost of Marxism’s Future,” pp. 95-96, 101-102.

Rose, Jonathan. The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001, 2003.

Sheehan, Helena. Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1985.

Introduction to 2nd edition (1993). pdf

New ed., with a new afterword by the author: London: Verso, 2018. (Radical Thinkers)

#083 Dialectical Materialism (From Alpha To Omega) [podcast, 55m 23s], February 11, 2018. Interview with Prof. Helena Sheehan about her book Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History.

Sheehan, Helena. Navigating the Zeitgeist: A Story of the Cold War, the New Left, Irish Republicanism, and International Communism (New York: Monthly Review Press, March 2019), chapters 6 and 7.

“National Liberation in an International Context”-Counterpunch on “Navigating the Zeitgeist” reviewed by Mat Callahan, May 6, 2019.

Thompson, Willie, ed. Historiography and the British Marxist Historians. London; East Haven, CT: Pluto Press, 1995.

Werskey, Gary. The Visible College: The Collective Biography of British Scientific Socialists of the 1930’s. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1979.

Journals / Periodicals

Twentieth Century Communism, No. 12: Communism and the Written Word, Spring 2017. Selected articles:

Ben Harker, Editorial: Communism’s Print Culture [free]
Matthew Kavanagh, British Communism, Periodicals and Comprehensive Education, 1920-56 [free]
Glyn Salton-Cox, ‘Polemics Pertinent at the Time of Publication’: Georg Lukács, International Literature, and the Popular Front [not free]
Elinor Taylor, ‘The Voice Speaking, Desired, Awaited’: Jack Lindsay’s 1649, Textual Form and Communist Historiography [not free]

Proletarian Philosophers

Osborne, Peter. “On the Jackson Trail” [Review of Proletarian Philosophers: Problems in Socialist Culture in Britain, 1900-1940 by Jonathan Ree], Radical Philosophy, no. 44, Autumn 1986, pp. 30-32.

Rée, Jonathan. “Proletarian Philosophy: A Version of Pastoral?,” Radical Philosophy, no. 44, Autumn 1986, pp. 3-7.

Proletarian Philosophers: Philosophical Works

Casey, Fred. Method in Thinking: A Series of Popular Lectures. Manchester: South-East Lancashire Labour College, 1933.

Casey, Fred. Thinking: An Introduction to Its History and Science. London: The Labour Publishing Company Ltd., 1922.

Jackson, T. A. (Thomas Alfred). Dialectics: The Logic of Marxism. London, Lawrence and Wishart Ltd., 1936. Contents. Prologue.

Marxist / Socialist Scientists: Biographies

Marxist / Socialist Scientists: Biographies: Articles

Filner, Robert E. “Science and Marxism in England, 1930-1945,” Science and Nature, no. 3, 1980, pp. 60-69.

Other British Marxists: Biographies

Newman, Michael. John Strachey. Manchester, UK; New York: Manchester University Press; New York: Distributed by St. Martin’s Press, 1989.

Thomas, Hugh. John Strachey. London: Eyre Methuen; New York: Harper & Row, 1973.

Thompson, Noel. John Strachey: An Intellectual Biography. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1993.

A. L. (Arthur Leslie) Morton

Collected Poems. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1976.

The English Utopia. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1952, 1969.

The Everlasting Gospel: A Study in the Sources of William Blake. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1958.

History and the Imagination: Selected Writings of A. L. Morton, edited by Margot Heinemann and Willie Thompson. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1990.

Selected books (on cultural matters) by A. L. Morton are listed here. See below for more by and about Morton.

T. A. (Thomas Alfred) Jackson

Anderson, John. Review of T. A. Jackson, Dialectics: The Logic of Marxism, and Its Critics: An Essay in Exploration ( Lawrence and Wishart, 1936: pp. 648).

Bounds, Philip. “The Marxist Outsider: T.A. Jackson as Autobiographer and Critic,” Socialism and Democracy, vol. 31, no. 2, 2017, pp. 122-144.

Jackson, T. A. Charles Dickens: The Progress of a Radical. Foreword by John Murray. New York: International Publishers, 1987.

Jackson, T. A. Dialectics: The Logic of Marxism, and Its Critics—An Essay in Exploration. New York: International Publishers, 1936. Contents. Prologue.

Jackson, T. A. “Marx and Shakespeare,” International Literature, no. 2, February 1936, p. 92-?.

Jackson, T. A. Old Friends to Keep: Studies of English Novels and Novelists. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1950.

Jackson, T. A. Solo Trumpet: Some Memories of Socialist Agitation and Propaganda. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1953.

Jackson, T. A. “Walter Scott and his Historical Significance,” International Literature, no. 8-9, August/September 1939, pp. 68-76.

Jackson, T. A.; with Sylvia Townsend Warner and Georg Lukács, “Points from Letters,” International Literature, no. 9, September 1938, pp. 100-101.

McLaughlin-Jenkins, Erin. “Sounding the Trumpet: T.A. Jackson on Darwin, Marx, and Human Existence,” in Evolutionary Economics and Human Nature, edited by John Laurent (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2003), pp. 153-168.

Morton, A. L. “T.A. Jackson,” Morning Star, October 25, 1979, reprinted in History and the Imagination: Selected Writings of A.L. Morton, edited by Margot Heinemann and Willie Thompson (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1990), pp. 307-309.

Morton, Vivien; Macintyre, Stuart. T. A. Jackson - Revolutionary and Working Class Intellectual: Centenary Appreciation 1879-1979. Our History, Pamphlet 73. London: Communist Party, 1979.

Thomas Alfred Jackson Archive (1879-1955)

Other Contemporary British Marxists: Selected Works

Cornforth, Maurice, ed. Rebels and Their Causes: Essays in Honour of A. L. Morton. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1978.

Cornforth, Maurice. A. L. Morton—Portrait of a Marxist Historian, pp. 7-19.

Lindsay, Jack. “Ebenezer Jones, 1820-1860 — An English Symbolist,” pp. 151-175.

Kettle, Arnold. Bernard Shaw and the New Spirit, pp. 209-220.

Lewis, John. Marxism and Modern Idealism. New York: International Publishers, 1945.

Lewis, John. Marxism and the Irrationalists. London: Lawrence & Wishart Ltd., 1955.

I Idealism and Materialism, What are they? 1

II Why Berkeley was wrong 10

III The Refutation of Mechanistic Materialism 28

IV What is Matter? 40

V The Rational Order of Nature 46

VI The Roots of Sanity 53

VII The Nature of the Supernatural 61

VIII Witchcraft and the Professors 72

IX The Death and Resurrection of Idealism 84

X Science and the System of Nature 98

XI Fact or Fiction 110

XII Marxism and the Changing World 124

XIII Man and Nature 132

Lewis, John. Marxism and the Open Mind. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1957.

Strachey, John. Literature and Dialectical Materialism. New York: Covici, Friede, 1934.

Thomson, George. The First Philosophers: Studies in Ancient Greek Society. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1972. (First published 1955, 2nd ed. 1961, reprinted with corrections, 1972.)

Links Between the Old & New Left

Why E.P. Thompson is My Hero (E.P. Thompson’s Universe of Knowledge) by R. Dumain

E.P. Thompson on William Blake & Intellectual Traditions

Raymond Williams on Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck (1952)

The bourgeois living room drama: from Naturalism to Expressionism (1988) by Raymond Williams

“Ideology” by Raymond Williams

Engels & Marx & Carlyle & Origins of British Marxism

Engels on the British Ideology: Empiricism, Agnosticism, & “Shamefaced Materialism”

Engels (& Borges) on Carlyle

Carlyle and the Idea of the Modern: Studies in Carlyle’s Prophetic Literature and Its Relation to Blake, Nietzsche, Marx, and Others by Albert J. LaValley

Bibliographies & Web Guides

Christopher Caudwell: Selected Bibliography

A Checklist of Jack Lindsay’s Books by John Arnold, with additions by R. Dumain

Intellectual Life in Society, Conventional and Unconventional: A Bibliography in Progress

Proletarian Philosophy

Marx and Marxism Web Guide

Second International Marxism, German Social Democracy, Austro-Marxism: Selected Secondary Bibliography

Philosophy and the Division of Labor: Selected Bibliography

Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1)

Wittgenstein, Marxism, Sociology, Politics: An Annotated Bibliography

I	Idealism and Materialism, What are they?	1
II	Why Berkeley was wrong	10
III	The Refutation of Mechanistic Materialism	28
IV	What is Matter?	40
V	The Rational Order of Nature	46
VI	The Roots of Sanity	53
VII	The Nature of the Supernatural	61
VIII	Witchcraft and the Professors	72
IX	The Death and Resurrection of Idealism	84
X	Science and the System of Nature	98
XI	Fact or Fiction	110
XII	Marxism and the Changing World	124
XIII	Man and Nature	132

British Marxism in Philosophy, Science, and Culture Before the New Left: Essential Historical Surveys