Works of E. Belfort Bax

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E. Belfort Bax

1854 – 1925

Biography by Robert Arch

Biography by Ted Crawford

Bibliography by Ted Crawford

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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
May 1884:	French Socialism
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)
1886–8:	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
28 May 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 The Will of the Majority
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
November 1896:	Save Us from Our Friends
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
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)
21 November 1900:	‘A Common Misconception’ (or, ‘A Widespread Erroneous Conclusion’)
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
August-November 1902:	E.B. Bax/G.B. Shaw: An Exchange consisting of: Bax: Shaw and Fabianism (letter) Shaw: Note on Bax’s Letter (letter) Bax: Rejoinder to Shaw’s Letter (letter)
30 August 1902:	A Personal Explanation (letter)
20 September 1902:	A Personal Explanation (letter)
September 1902:	The Synthetic Or the Neo-Marxist Conception of History
December 1902:	Feminism in extremis
1903:	A New Catechism of Socialism (with H. Quelch)
1903:	The Rise and Fall of the Anabapists
1903:	Liberalism & Labour
January 1903:	The Aims and Limitations of the Materialist Conception of History
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)
21 March 1908:	Anti-Feminism
6 June 1908:	Internationalism and Bourgeois Foreign Politics
August 1908:	Socialism Real and So-Called
8 August 1908:	Mr. Belfort Bax Replies to his Feminist Critics
29 August 1908:	The Case of Gott
5 November 1908:	Spiritual Spoof
10 December 1908:	Smart-Paradox Spoof
14 January 1909:	The Chestershaw
14 January 1909:	Weber and Debussy
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)
8 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)
13 January 1910:	The Bankruptcy of Traditional Religions
3 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)
16 May 1910:	Uni-Sexual Criminal Law
30 May 1910:	Feminism and Female Suffrage
4 June 1910:	Re Woods (letter)
28 July 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)
10 November 1910:	The French Revolution
3 December 1910:	The “Maximum” 1 (letter)
22 December 1910:	Tolstoy and the Ethics of Introspection
31 December 1910:	The “Maximum” 2 (letter)
1911:	Gracchus Babeuf and the Conspiracy of the Equals
2 February 1911:	A Symposium on Women’s Suffrage
18 February 1911:	Some Considerations on Democracy
9 March 1911:	Republicanism in Portugal
20 April 1911:	A Derelict of the Ages
29 April 1911:	Internationalism
1 June 1911:	Liberty of the Press and our Law for the Indemnification of Rogues
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)
21 September 1911:	Socialism and Communism
October 1911:	The Essential Socialism 2
23 November 1911:	Richard Wagner (review)
28 December 1911:	Reaction v. Republicanism (letter)
30 December 1911:	The Essential Socialism Again (letter)
1912:	Problems of Mind and Morals
11 January 1912:	Reaction v. Republicanism (letter)
20 January 1912:	The Marriage Relation Under Socialism (letter)
10 February 1912:	Marriage Under Socialism (letter)
14 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)
1 August 1912:	Internationalism and Bureaucratic Diplomacy
17 August 1912:	Socialism and Catholicism (letter)
19 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:	Nationalities And Individuals
21 November 1912:	Cant, Cowardice and Cruelty
1913:	The Fraud of Feminism
27 September 1913:	Harry Quelch (obituary)
October 1913:	A Few Reminiscences of August Bebel
30 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)
19 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
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