Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Edwin A. Roberts: "The Anglo-Marxists: A Study in Ideology and Culture" (Contents)

Preface	ix
Introduction	viii

1 Toward a Theory of Anglo-Marxism	1
British Marxism as an Object of Study	1
The Methodological Problem of Identifying a School of Thought in Marxism	9
Interlude: Questions of Political Theory and Intellectual History	13
The Concept of Anglo-Marxism	15

2 The Early Years of British Marxism: From Hyndman to Lenin	21
The British Socialist Tradition	24
The Initial Impact of Marxist Thought in Britain	26
British Marxism and the Proletarian Autodidacts	30
On Some Developmental Links Between British and Russian Communism	40
Lenin and the Remaking of British Marxism	42

3 The Emergence of Anglo-Marxism in the Era of the Communist Party	55
The Theoretical Codification of British Communism	58
University Marxists: Intellectuals in the Red Decades	66
Interlude I: R. Palme Dutt, Champion of Party Orthodoxy	68
Interlude II: John Strachey, Herald of the Red Decade	74
Postscript: Christopher Caudwell, Ghost of Marxism’s Future	95

4 John Lewis: Anglo-Marxism and Philosophy	103
Life and Works	105
From Christianity to Communism	107
Marxism as Rationalism	115
Lewis as a Moralist	121
Lewis’ Marxist-Darwinist Teleology	128
Lewis as a Marxist Philosopher: Evaluations and Response	134

5 Marxism and Britain’s Scientific Left	143
The Politics and Philosophy of Red Science	146
J. D. Bernal: Marxism as a Scientific System	156
The Development of Bernalism	158
Bernal on Engels, Science, and Dialectics	167
Science and Human Values	169
Bernalism. and its Critics	171
J. B. S. Haldane: Marxism as a Scientific Method	179
The Making of a Dialectical Biologist	181
Haldane’s Marxist Biology	184
Dialectics and the Impasse of Science and Philosophy in Britain	188
Haldane v. Lysenkoism	191
Haldane and the Crisis of Dialectical Biology	197

6 Maurice Cornforth: Anglo-Marxism and the Dilemmas of British Communism	209
Intellectual Development	210
Cornforth’s Early Works	213
Cornforth and Wittgensteinianism	221
British Empiricism and Social Science	222
Wittgenstein for and Against	224
Communist Humanism	230
Cornforth Versus Popper	232
Cornforth’s Marxism: Reformed or Reevaluated	239

7 Anglo-Marxism at the End of the Communist Party Era	249
The Disintegration of Stalinism and the Liberation of Anglo-Marxism	251
Anglo-Marxism and the New Left	264
Conclusion: The Legacy of Anglo-Marxism	270

Bibliography	279
Index	289
About the Author	297

SOURCE: Roberts, Edwin A. The Anglo-Marxists: A Study in Ideology and Culture. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997.