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  Ernest Belfort Bax
Ernest was educated at home by private tutors and as a young man been encouraged to read John Stuart Mill and Herbert Spencer.
Bax was impressed by William Morris and supported him in his disputes with the party leader, H.
Bax was elected to the party executive and became the editor of Justice, the party's weekly newspaper.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUbax.htm   (448 words)

  
 Page 12 August 2005 Socialist Standard
Bax had written an article on “The Woman Question” that was published in the SDF’s paper Justice in its 27 July 1895 issue (see http://www.marxists.org/archive/bax/1895/07/woman.htm).
Bax insisted on having the last word, accusing Eleanor Marx of having refused to debate in writing, while in fact it was he who had refused her challenge to a public oral debate (despite being a barrister), and re-iterating his prejudiced views on women:
Bax, incidentally, wrote his letters from the National Liberal Club, an all-male establishment (of course) which included leading members of the Liberal Party, to which the SDF was supposed to be implacably opposed.
www.worldsocialism.org /spgb/aug05/page12.html   (993 words)

  
 Belfort — FactMonster.com
A major fortress town since the 17th cent., it commands the Belfort Gap, or Burgundy Gate, between the Vosges and the Jura mts., thus dominating the roads from France, Switzerland, and Germany.
An Austrian possession, Belfort passed to France by the Peace of Westphalia (1648) and was fortified by Vauban.
Territory of Belfort - Belfort, Territory of Belfort, Territory of, department (1990 pop.
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 Ted Crawford: E. Belfort Bax - Biographical Sketch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Ernest Belfort Bax (23.7.1854-26.11.1925) was born at Leamington of non-Conformist parents, was a barrister and was an important propagandist and historian.
He studied music at the Stuttgart Conservatoire (his nephew was Arnold Bax the composer) and he had been a music critic with Bernard Shaw, whom he knew well and is named as a philosopher by Shaw in the prologue to Major Barbara.
Reminiscences and Reflexions of a Mid and late Victorian, Belfort Bax, Allen and Unwin, 1918, reprinted by Kelley (New York 1967)
www.marxists.org /archive/bax/bio/biography.htm   (360 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Religion of Socialism: Books: Ernest Belfort-Bax   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Ernest Belfort Bax (1854-1926), was an English Socialist, journalist, economist, and philosopher; who helped William Morris found the Socialist League, co-edited its organ 'Commonweal'; joined the Social Democratic Federation after the League became anarchist, and edited the paper 'Justice.' His parents were strict Nonconformists who came from families that had suffered religious persecution.
In his books The Religion of Socialism (1887) and Ethics of Socialism (1889), Bax argued that Christian ethics was gradually being replaced by the Utilitarian idea that ethical change was produced by the needs of society rather than from a supernatural level.
Bax was one of the ablest, and in literary terms at least, most aggressive exponents of English socialism.
www.amazon.com /Religion-Socialism-Ernest-Belfort-Bax/dp/0898755581   (752 words)

  
 Bax Coat of Arms
The Bax family's name is derived from the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain.
Their name originated with an early member who was a person with a hunched back, or some other peculiarity of the back or spine.
Ernest Belfort Bax (1854-1926), English writer and reformer
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 AllRefer.com - Ernest Belfort Bax (Philosophy, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Ernest Belfort Bax (Philosophy, Biography) - Encyclopedia
In England, influenced by Marxist and other radical thought, he became active in socialist groups, especially the Social Democratic Federation.
More articles from AllRefer Reference on Ernest Belfort Bax
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 Amazon.com: "Ernest Belfort Bax": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Victorian Encounter with Marx: A Study of Ernest Belfort Bax by John Cowley
Among this small circle Ernest Belfort Bax was in some ways the most original and gifted exponent of the new theory of social revolution.
15 Ernest Belfort Bax, a leading member, later remarked that the new organization was `largely occupied' with Ireland in its formative years."' H.M. Hyndman,...
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 European Studies site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A continuing interest in the political thought of William Morris and the relevance of his socialist thought.
The political thought of Ernest Belfort Bax and late nineteenth century conceptions of socialist internationalism and patriotism.
Currently also engaged in writing an introduction to anarchist thought.
www.lboro.ac.uk /departments/eu/staff_research.htm   (549 words)

  
 European Studies site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In 2000 I published a book, William Morris: The Art of Socialism (
Following on from this research I have examined the political thought of Ernest Belfort Bax, the leading Marxist theoretician of the Victorian movement, and have recently published an article on Bax’s view of patriotism and jacobinism in the History of European Ideas.
More recently, I have returned to anarchism - extending the focus of my research from the nineteenth century to the modern anti-globalization movement.
www.lboro.ac.uk /departments/eu/rek.htm   (358 words)

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