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Class Warrior
The Selected Works of E. T. Kingsley
Edited by Benjamin Isitt & Ravi Malhotra
Categories: Political Science, Social Sciences, Work & Labour Studies, Disability Studies
Publisher: Athabasca University Press Show Edition Details
Ebook (EPUB) : 9781771993715, 400 pages, October 2022
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Excerpt
“We hear much in these days of the right to live. At this very moment the great working class of the world do not possess that right. They only have the privilege; and this because they have no command over the means of life. The things the workers have to use in order to feed, clothe and shelter themselves, are the instruments used to dispossess that working class.”
—E. T. Kingsley
Table of contents
Foreword
E. T. Kingsley: Canadian Marxism’s “Old Man”
Bryan D. Palmer
Introduction
Re-evaluating the British Columbia School of Socialism: E. T. Kingsley, Disablement, and the “Impossiblist” Challenge to Industrial Capitalism in Western Canada
Part I: Selected Writings of E. T. Kingsley
1900
On Washington State’s Primary Law
1903
On Political Action
On Reformism and Electoral “Fusion”
On Trade Unions
1905
On the Single Tax
On a Journey to Seattle
1906
On the Arrest of US Labour Leaders and State Power
1908
On the Socialist Movement and Travels across Canada
1909
On War
On the Vancouver Free Speech Fight
1911
On Property
On the Workers’ Awakening
On Economic Organization
On the Capitalist State
1914
On the Causes of the First World War
1916
On Carnage
1917
On Slavery and War
On War Finance
On the War Effort
1918
On the Bolshevik Revolution
On Capitalism Getting Rich Quick
1919
On Control of the State by the Working Class
On Reconstruction
On Collaboration between Labour and Capital
On Wealth
On Gold
On Class War
On the Paris Peace Conference
On Capitalist Civilization
1921
On the 1921 Canadian Parliamentary Election
Part II: Selected Speeches of E. T. Kingsley
1895
On the Aims of Socialism
1896
On Socialism and the Economy
1899
On American Imperialism in Cuba and the Philippines
1903
On the Labour Problem
On the Political Organization of Miners in Cumberland
On Stirring the Emotions of His Audience
On Wages, Profit, and Capital
On the 1903 British Columbia Election
1905
On the 1905 Russian Revolution
On Workers and Rockefeller
On the Mission of the Working Class
1906
On the Paris Commune
1908
On Labour and Its Economies
On the Working Class Using Clubs If Necessary
On Working-Class Political Power
1912
On the Vancouver Free Speech Fight
1913
On the Vancouver Island Miners’ Strike
1914
On the Komagata Maru Incident
1917
On Conscription
On Working-Class Opposition to Conscription
On Conscription and Wiping Out Ruling-Class Laws
On the 1917 Conscription Election
1918
On the Formation of the Federated Labor Party
On Laws
On Reconstruction
On the Armistice and Postwar Moment
On Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War
1919
On Lenin and Trotsky
On the Belfast General Strike, Unemployment, and the Postwar Challenge to Capitalism
On the Bolshevik Revolution
On the One Big Union
On the Class Struggle
On the Machine
On Capitalism
On the Defeat of the Winnipeg General Strike
On the Machinery of Slavery
On Civilization
1921
On Mechanization of Production
On the Paris Commune
On the Collapse of Civilization
On the Bankruptcy of the Capitalist System
Part III: The Genesis and Evolution of Slavery
1916
The Genesis and Evolution of Slavery: Showing How the Chattel Slaves of Pagan Times Have Been Transformed into the Capitalist Property of To-day
Part IV: On the World Situation
1919
On the World Situation
Appendix
Partial Record of E. T. Kingsley’s Public Speeches and Lectures
Description
In October 1890, Eugene T. Kingsley’s life changed irrevocably when he was injured in a fall between two rail cars while working as a brakeman on the Northern Pacific Railway. Following the amputation of both his legs, Kingsley became radicalized and joined the Socialist Labor Party in San Francisco. His activism eventually brought him to Vancouver, B.C. where he founded the Socialist Party of Canada. A self-described “uncompromising enemy of class rule and class robbery,” Kingsley wrote prolifically on the exploitation of wage slaves by the capitalist class. Also known as a passionate orator, he went on to become one of the most prominent socialist intellectuals of his day. Class Warrior is a collection of Kingsley’s writing and speeches that underscores his tremendous impact on Canadian political discourse.