Marxists’ Internet Archive
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
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)
March 1908: Anti-Feminism
6 June 1908: Internationalism and Bourgeois Foreign Politics
August 1908: Socialism Real and So-Called
August 1908: Mr. Belfort Bax Replies to his Feminist Critics
29 August 1908: The Case of Gott
November 1908: Spiritual Spoof
December 1908: Smart-Paradox Spoof
January 1909: Weber and Debussy
January 1909: The Chestershaw
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)
July 1909: Bergson and Bax
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)
January 1910: The Bankruptcy of Traditional Religions
March 1910: Some Considerations
19 March 1910: The Gaggers (letter)
30 April 1910: Some Reflections on the International Movement
14 May 1910: Woods on Women (letter)
May 1910: Uni-Sexual Criminal Law
May 1910: Feminism and Female Suffrage
4 June 1910: Re Woods (letter)
July 1910: S. Verdad and his Critics
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)
November 1910: The French Revolution
3 December 1910: The “Maximum” 1 (letter)
December 1910: Tolstoy and the Ethics of Introspection
31 December 1910: The “Maximum” 2 (letter)
1911: Gracchus Babeuf and the Conspiracy of the Equals
18 February 1911: Some Considerations on Democracy
February 1911: A Symposium on Women's Suffrage
March 1911: Republicanism in Portugal
April 1911: A Derelict of the Ages
29 April 1911: Internationalism
22 July 1911: Patriotism v. Socialism
June 1911: Liberty of the Press and our Law for the Indemnification of Rogues
August 1911: The Essential Socialism 1
9 September 1911: Patriotism v. Socialism (letter)
16 September 1911: The Maximum (letter)
September 1911: Socialism and Communism
October 1911: The Essential Socialism 2
November 1911: Richard Wagner
December 1911: Reaction v. Republicanism
30 December 1911: The Essential Socialism Again (letter)
1912: Problems of Mind and Morals
20 January 1912: The Marriage Relation Under Socialism (letter)
January 1912: Reaction v. Republicanism
10 February 1912: Marriage Under Socialism (letter)
March 1912: A Noteworthy Book
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)
August 1912: Internationalism and Bureaucratic Diplomacy
17 August 1912: Socialism and Catholicism (letter)
September 1912: Internationalism and Militarism
5 October 1912: The International Socialist Congress of 1913
(protest letter signed jointly with H.M. Hyndman & Harry Quelch)
November 1912: Cant, Cowardice and Cruelty
November 1912: Nationalities And Individuals
1913: The Fraud of Feminism
27 September 1913: Harry Quelch (obituary)
October 1913: A Few Reminiscences of August Bebel
October 1913: The Guild System and its Implications
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)
August 1915: Compulsion!
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