The Strange Figure of Ramsay Macdonald in Socialist Movement
The piece critiques Ramsay Macdonald and the ILP in relation to the Second International and Vienna Conference. It argues the ILP rejects the Second International while its leaders hold positions within it, creating a duplicitous dynamic as factions maneuver in European socialist politics. The analogy of fire, water, and a yellow face concludes the commentary.
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Europe
Socialist
Ramsay Macdonald
LLP
International Socialist Movement
Second International
Geneva
London
Arthur Henderson
M.P
J. H. Thomas
J. Ramsay Macdonald
Ll-P
I.L.P
Il.p
Ramifay Macdonald
Ll.p
Philip Snowden
Tthe
I.lp
Macdonald
I.S.P
Proletariat Rise Predicted Over Bourgeois Stagnation
The writer denounces British workers' leaders as treacherous and stupid while claiming the future belongs to the proletariat. He predicts Hendersons and MacDonalds and Thomases will seek rat-holes as a thoroughly aroused working class becomes the strongest social power on earth.
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Hendersons
MacDonalds
Thomases
Honour of Labour and the Rise of the Working Class
The article reviews Pierre Hamp's Les Metiers Blesses, praising its sociological insight and insistence that social transformation stems from masses of workers. It contrasts wage dynamics, compulsory labor laws in Russia Canada and parts of the US, and the shift from prestige of manual labor to respect for skilled, knowledgeable workers and worker participation in profits and management.
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Pierre Hamp
Les Metiers
Russian Republic
Canada
New York
Maryland
Virginia
France
Italy
America
Hamp