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

Day-Lewis, C. (Cecil), ed. The Mind in Chains: Socialism and the Cultural Revolution. London: Frederick Muller Ltd., 1937. 256 pp. Contents, pp. 9-10.

Edward Upward on James Joyce & Modernism

Edgell Rickword on James Joyce & Modernism

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.

Hemingway, Andrew. Landscape Between Ideology and the Aesthetic: Marxist Essays on British Art and Art Theory, 1750-1850. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2017. (Historical Materialism Book Series, 1570-1522; Volume 135)

The Houses of History: A Critical Reader in History and Theory, selected and introduced by Anna Green and Kathleen Troup. 2nd ed. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. The Houses of History: 2: Marxist Historians

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.

Paul, Ronald. “Politics and the Novel: Three British Marxist Critics of the 1930s,” Socialism and Democracy, no. 32 (volume 16, no. 2), 2002, pp.163-181.

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)

John Desmond Bernal, Marxism, and the Scientific Revolution,” Jacobin, 04.25.2021.

#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.

Long Reads: Helena Sheehan on Marxism and the Scientific Revolution, Jacobin Radio, July 2, 2022 (39:36)

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.

Williams, Keith. “Joyce’s ‘Chinese Alphabet’: Ulysses and the Proletarians,” in Irish Writing: Exile and Subversion, edited by Paul Hyland and Neil Sammells (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1991), pp. 173-187.

Wood, Neal. Communism and British Intellectuals. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1959.

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

See also Werskey.  There are several books authored by each of these scientists.

Brown, Andrew. J. D. Bernal: The Sage of Science. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Clark, Ronald. J. B. S.: The Life and Work of J. B. S. Haldane. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1968.

Goldsmith, Maurice. Joseph Needham: 20th-century Renaissance Man. Paris: UNESCO, 1995.

Goldsmith, Maurice. Sage: A Life of J. D. Bernal. London: Hutchinson, 1980.

Guest, David. David Guest, a Scientist Fights for Freedom (1911-1938): A Memoir, edited by Carmel Haden Guest. London: Lawrence & Wishart Ltd., 1939.

Hogben, Lancelot. Lancelot Hogben, Scientific Humanist: An Unauthorised Autobiography, edited by Adrian and Anne Hogben. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Merlin Press, 1998.

Swann, Brenda; Aprahamian, Francis; eds. J. D. Bernal: A Life in Science and Politics. London: Verso, 1999.

Winchester, Simon. The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom. New York: Harper, 2008.

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.

Videos

A. L. Morton: Revolutions, Utopias, and Life in the English Radical Tradition by James Crossley (CenSAMM, 2024, 7:10 min.).

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)

Arnold Kettle
(His writings on literature only)

"Bernard Shaw and the New Spirit," in Rebels and Their Causes: Essays in Honour of A. L. Morton, edited by Maurice Cornforth (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1978), pp. 83-102.

"Dickens and the Popular Tradition," in Marxists on Literature: An Anthology. edited by David Craig (Harmondsworth, England; Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1975) pp. 214-244.

Foreword to Crisis and Criticism and Selected Literary Essays, by Alick West, introduction by Elizabeth West. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1975. (Originally 1937.)

Hardy the Novelist: A Reconsideration [the W. D. Thomas Memorial Lecture, University College of Swansea, November 28, 1966]. Swansea: University College of Swansea, 1967. 15 pp.

An Introduction to the English Novel. 2 vols. London; New York: Hutchinson's University Library, 1951, 1953. Vol. 1: Defoe to George Eliot. Vol. 2: Henry James to the Present.

     Volume 2:

Contents:
Preface 7
PART I: THE LAST VICTORIANS
I Introduction 9
II Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady 13
III Samuel Butler : The Way of All Flesh 35
IV Thomas Hardy : Tess of the D'Urbervilles 49
PART II: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
          THE FIRST QUARTER

I Introduction 63
II Joseph Conrad : Nostromo 67
III Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Woolf 82
     Arnold Bennett : The Old Wives' Tale 85
     H. G. Wells : Tono Bungay 89
     John Galsworthy: The Man of Property 95
     Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse 100
IV D. H. Lawrence : The Rainbow 111
James Joyce : Ulysses 135
VI E. M. Forster : A Passage to India 152
PART III: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
            THE SECOND QUARTER

I Introduction 165
II Aldous Huxley : Point Counter Point 167
III Graham Greene : The Heart of the Matter 170
IV Joyce Gary: Mister Johnson 177
V  I. Compton-Burnett : A Family and a Fortune 184
VI Henry Green : Party Going 190
Notes and References 198
Reading List 202
Index 205

Literature and Liberation: Selected Essays, edited by Graham Martin and W. R. Owens, introductory essay by Dipak Nandy. Manchester: Manchester University Press; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988.

Contents
Editors’ preface                                                 vi
Arnold Kettle and English Marxist literary criticism
    Dipak Nandy                                                 1                                  
Part I
The progressive tradition in bourgeois culture     21
The artist and politics                              35
Part II
The Mental Traveller                           51[-58]
From Hamlet to Lear                            59
Bernard Shaw and the new spirit            83
W. H. Auden: poetry and politics in the thirties   95
Part III
The precursors of Defoe:
    Puritanism and the rise of the novel   117
In defence of Moll Flanders                127
Dickens and the popular tradition         140
Our Mutual Friend                             168
Felix Holt the Radical                        181
Beauchamp's Career                          197
What is Kim?                                      213
Sources and acknowledgements          225
Index                                                  227

Man and the Arts: A Marxist Approach by Arnold Kettle and V. G. Hanes. New York: The American Institute for Marxist Studies, 1968. (Occasional Paper No. 8)

           I. Man and the Arts, by Arnold Kettle 1-16
          II. Frye’s Theory of Literature and Marxism, by V. G. Hanes 17-33

"The Progressive Tradition In Bourgeois Culture," in Radical Perspectives in the Arts, edited by Lee Baxandall (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1972), pp. 159-174.

"W. H. Auden: Poetry and Politics in the Thirties," in Culture and Crisis in Britain in the Thirties, edited by John Clark (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1979), pp. 83-102.

Study Guides:

Mrs Dalloway. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1973

Sentimental Education: a Study Guide. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1976.

A Study Guide to Stendhal's Scarlet and Black (1830). Bletchley, Bucks: Open University Press, 1971.

William Blake: (1757-1827). Bletchley, Bucks: The Open University Press, 1972.

Kettle, Arnold, ed. The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Critical Essays and Documents [for the Open University Nineteenth-Century Novel and Its Legacy Course Team]. London: Heinemann Educational, 1972. Introduction.

Kettle, Arnold, ed. Shakespeare in a Changing World: Essays. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1964.

Contents
INTRODUCTION. 9
THE SOUL OF THE AGE: TOWARDS A HISTORICAL APPROACH TO SHAKESPEARE 17
Robert Weimann
HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS IN SHAKESPEARE 43
V. G. Kiernan
SHAKESPEARE AND POLITICS 65
Kenneth Muir
HENRY V AND HISTORY 84
Zjdenlk. Stfibrny
MACBETH 102
J. K. Walton
OTHELLO AND THE DIGNITY OF MAN 123
G. M. Matthews
FROM HAMLET TO LEAR 146
Arnold Kettle
THE REALISM OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA 172
Dipak Nandy
LOVE AND SOCIETY: MEASURE FOR MEASURE AND OUR OWN TIME 195
David Craig
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA AND THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM 217
Raymond Southall
THE WINTER’S TALE AND JACOBEAN SOCIETY 233
Charles Barber
SOME CURRENT USES OF “SHAKESPEARIAN” 253
Alick West

Festschrift:

The Uses of Fiction: Essays on the Modern Novel in Honour of Arnold Kettle, edited by Douglas Jefferson and Graham Martin. Milton Keynes, England: Open University Press, 1982.

Alick West

Crisis and Criticism and Selected Literary Essays, foreword by Arnold Kettle, introduction by Elizabeth West. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1975. (Originally 1937.)

1 'We' and 'I'                                   17
2 Romantic Criticism                    20
3 T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land        31
4 T. S. Eliot as Critic                     37
5 Herbert Read: Surrealism           47
6 I. A. Richards                             54
7 A Sacrifice of Intellect               66
8 Marx and Romanticism             68
9 Continuation of Romanticism   73
10 Language and Rhythm            75
11 Idiom                                       81
12 Form                                        85
13 Form and Content                   94
14 The Relativity of Literary Value   100
15 James Joyce: Ulysses                    104

LITERARY ESSAYS
John Bunyan                             131
Daniel Defoe                            178
Walter Pater                              229
Jonathan Swift                          242
D. H. Lawrence                        259

Bibliography of published works by Alick West    283

"Form," in Marxism and Art: Essays Classic and Contemporary, selected and with historical and critical commentary by Maynard Solomon (New York: Vintage Books, 1973), pp. 492-501 (including ed.'s introduction).

“A Good Man Fallen Among Fabians”. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1950. vii, 172 pp. Chapter VI: Protestant Anarchism, pp; 67-79. (Main treatment of Ibsen: pp. 72-79.)

The Mountain in the Sunlight: Studies in Conflict and Unity. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1958.

One Man in His Time: An Autobiography. London: Allen & Unwin, 1969.

"The Relativity of Literary Value" (1937), in Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader, edited by Terry Eagleton and Drew Mile (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1996), pp. 103-106.

John Lewis

Althusser, Louis. Louis Althusser Replies to John Lewis, translated by Grahame Lock, Australian Left Review, December 1972, pp. 23-36. (The English translation, known as ‘Reply to John Lewis’, originally appeared in Marxism Today.)

Lewis, John. “The Althusser Case,” Australian Left Review, no. 37, October 1972, pp. 16-26. (Originally appeared in Marxism Today, January & February 1972 issues.)

Lewis, John. Bertrand Russell: Philosopher and Humanist. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1968. 96 pp.

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.

Lewis, John. Science, Faith, and Scepticism. London: Lawrence & Wishart Ltd., 1959. Can be borrowed from archive.org.

Lewis, John. The Teach Yourself History of Philosophy. London: English Universities Press, 1962. Can be borrowed from archive.org.

It is remarkable that Lewis could get his lucid, introductory, and critical text into the popular “Teach Yourself” series. Note his critiques of Bergson, Whitehead, analytical and linguistic philosophy, and his conclusions. Marx is mentioned cursorily.

Lewis, John. The Life and Teaching of Karl Marx. New York: International Publishers, 1965.

Lewis, John, rev. & ed. (& partially rewritten). A Textbook of Marxist Philosophy. London: Victor Gollancz, 1937.

Francis Donald (F. D.) Klingender

Pooke, Grant. Francis Klingender 1907-1955: A Marxist Art Historian Out of Time. London: Gill Vista Marx Press, 2007.

F. D. (Francis Donald) Klingender @ archive.org

Francis Klingender - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

Scott-Brown, Sophie. The Histories of Raphael Samuel: A Portrait of a People’s Historian. Acton: ANU Press [Australian National University], 2017. (ANU Lives Series in Biography) HTML PDF

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

Thomson, George. Aeschylus and Athens: A Study of the Social Origins of Drama. 3rd ed. New York: The Universal Library, 1968. (Orig. 1940.)

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

British Marxists: Essays & Articles

Samuel, Raphael. “British Marxist Historians 1880-1980. Part I,” NLR I, no. 120 March-April 1980, pp. 21-96.

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 

Arguments Within English Marxism: Utopias by Perry Anderson (from Arguments Within English Marxism, 1980)

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

Maurice Cornforth (1909-1980) Study Guide

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

Mark Starr (1894-1985): Labor Educator & Esperantist: Study Guide

Marxist Aesthetics: Anthologies in English

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

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

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CPGB Bibliography (Communist Party of Great Britain) by Dave Cope (2008)

Our History Digital Archive (Socialist History Society). Some articles:

Tom Mann 1890-92 by Dona Torr & E. P. Thompson (#26/27)
Shakespeare's Idea of History by A. L. Morton (#33)
Leveller Democracy- Fact or Myth? by A. L. Morton (#51)
T. A. Jackson - Revolutionary and Working Class Intellectual: Centenary Appreciation 1879-1979 by Vivien Morton & Stuart Macintyre (#73)

Culture Matters

Graham Stevenson - Books, pamphlets, articles and speeches

The Unz Review: An Alternative Media Selection

Marxism Today, October 1957 to November 1998
The Anglo-Soviet Journal, January 1940 to May 1974

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Prof Kevin Morgan

The same mould or different moulds? Reflections on a prosopography of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) by K. Morgan, Bruno Groppo, Berthold Unfried; Editors

The Houses of History: 2: Marxist Historians

Raphael Samuel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Communism and an International Language by Mark Starr

Note: This bibliography so far focuses on those figures associated at some point with the Communist Party of Great Britain. The proletarian autodidactic tradition prior to the emergence and dominance of the CPGB is included. The Australian Jack Lindsay is included, as he migrated to Britain and was a party member. British Trotskyists and others outside of the CPGB orbit, as well as others from the Commonwealth who lived in Britain, such as C.L.R. James (who was associated with the Trotskyist movement in the 1930s and 1940s), are not included.


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