Works of E. Belfort Bax

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E. Belfort Bax

E. Belfort Bax

1854 – 1925

Biography by Robert Arch
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April 1879

The Word “Religion”

August 1879

Modern Socialism

August 1879

Leaders of Modern Thought. Artur Schopenhauer

April 1881

The Ideal of the Future (Part 1)

June 1881

The Ideal of the Future (Part 2)

August 1879

Leaders of Modern Thought. Richard Wagner

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

June 1885

The Socialist Platform, No. 1, with Wm. Morris

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

23 November 1895

“Free Love” and Socialism – A Criticism

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

 1903

Liberalism & Labour, 1903

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

5 October 1907

A Protest

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)

5 June 1909

Socialism as the Palladium of Individual Liberty (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

1924

Analysis of Reality

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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