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E. T. Kingsley: Canadian Marxism’s “Old Man”
Bryan D. Palmer
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
On Reformism and Electoral “Fusion”
1906 On the Arrest of US Labour Leaders and State Power
1908 On the Socialist Movement and Travels across Canada
On the Vancouver Free Speech Fight
1914 On the Causes of the First World War
1918 On the Bolshevik Revolution
On Capitalism Getting Rich Quick
1919 On Control of the State by the Working Class
On Collaboration between Labour and Capital
1921 On the 1921 Canadian Parliamentary Election
Part II: Selected Speeches of E. T. Kingsley
1896 On Socialism and the Economy
1899 On American Imperialism in Cuba and the Philippines
On the Political Organization of Miners in Cumberland
On Stirring the Emotions of His Audience
On the 1903 British Columbia Election
1905 On the 1905 Russian Revolution
On the Mission of the Working Class
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
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 the Armistice and Postwar Moment
On Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War
On the Belfast General Strike, Unemployment, and the Postwar Challenge to Capitalism
On the Defeat of the Winnipeg General Strike
1920 On Mechanization of Production
On the Collapse of Civilization
On the Bankruptcy of the Capitalist System
Part III: The Genesis and Evolution of Slavery
Part IV: On the World Situation
Partial Record of E. T. Kingsley’s Public Speeches and Lectures