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The Red Light (Classic Reprint): A Commentary on Mr. J. H. Thomas's When Labour Rules: A Commentary on Mr. J. H. Thomas's When Labour Rules (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda
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This book presents the political ideas of legendary Labour leader J.H. Thomas, who during World War 1, was one of the first Labour members to hold a high position in the coalition government. Thomas's vision is of a peaceful socialist revolution that will see England become a paradise of universal prosperity and perfect social justice. He sets out a sweeping program of nationalization, radical reforms, and increased social welfare spending aimed at achieving these goals. However, the author, though not unsympathetic to Thomas's ends, nevertheless points out that the Labour leader makes some grandiose and questionable predictions and, when discussing the possible means by which the revolution can be achieved, sometimes sounds more like a revolutionary syndicalist than a Fabian socialist. Despite these warnings, Thomas's ideas provide a unique and important historical insight into the evolution of Labour's political ideas in the early part of the 20th century.
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Excerpt from The Red Light: A Commentary on Mr. J. H. Thomas's When Labour Rules
For there is much in the position advanced by Mr. Thomas with which every right-thinking man must sympathize. We all want to see poverty diminished (although Mr. Thomas appears to find it difficult to admit this) we all want to see freedom and justice reign in this country and throughout the world we all want to see general prosperity increase; we all want to see happiness widespread, culture improved and character strengthened. And because Mr. Thomas and his friends come before us confidently announcing political panaceas for achieving these ends, and be cause Mr. Thomas himself does so in less flaming and extreme language than has been common with his socialist colleagues, and because this programme is uttered at a time when political voices generally are speaking in disappointingly uncertain tones, there is a danger that many members of the public will give an over-ready credence to doctrines where closer examination would disclose grounds for scepticism. Hence the ensuing criticism and commentary.
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Excerpt from The Red Light: A Commentary on Mr. J. H. Thomas's When Labour Rules
The leaders of the Labour party are looking forward to control of the Government of this country. During the war one or two of them were taken into the Government, but the party now aims at something much more ambitious than modest participation of that sort: it proposes to take complete control of the governmental machine. One of its leaders, the Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas, m.p., regards the fulfiment of that ambition as so near that he has produced a book When Labour Rules - in which he sketches out the policy which a Labour Party Government will pursue when it seizes the reins. At least, one may suppose that such is the purpose of publication at this time though probably another motive, consistent with the former, is to be found in a desire to take up the challenge of a Coalition statesman as to Labour's unfitness to govern, and to show, by the elaboration of a policy, that there are Labour leaders who are fully competent to discharge the responsibility.
As a leader of eminence in his party, and one accus tomed to write his views for public perusal, it is natural, and not unfitting, that Mr. J. H. Thomas, m.p., should have undertaken the task. But from the standpoint of the public desirous of learning themind and methods and purpose of the Labour party the choice is not altogether a happy one. Mr. J. H. Thomas has two voices - an extremist and a moderate voice. Usually the moderate voice is, heard, but there are bewildering quick changes. It is the moderate voice which breathes through his book; but is it, I won't say the real, but the permanent voice P There is in the decoration of the volume a funny little symbol of what I mean. The contents of the book are for the most part couched in terms of studied moderation, but the loose cover which enwraps it blazons forth a red flag. There you have Mr. Thomas.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. This book presents the political ideas of legendary Labour leader J.H. Thomas, who during World War 1, was one of the first Labour members to hold a high position in the coalition government. Thomas's vision is of a peaceful socialist revolution that will see England become a paradise of universal prosperity and perfect social justice. He sets out a sweeping program of nationalization, radical reforms, and increased social welfare spending aimed at achieving these goals. However, the author, though not unsympathetic to Thomas's ends, nevertheless points out that the Labour leader makes some grandiose and questionable predictions and, when discussing the possible means by which the revolution can be achieved, sometimes sounds more like a revolutionary syndicalist than a Fabian socialist. Despite these warnings, Thomas's ideas provide a unique and important historical insight into the evolution of Labour's political ideas in the early part of the 20th century. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781332412259_0
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