Class Warrior: The Selected Works of E. T. Kingsley

400 Pages·2023·3.848 MB·English

by  Ravi Malhotra (ed.)

Class Warrior
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Class
Warrior
THE SELECTED WORKS
OF E. T. KINGSLEY
E. T. KINGSLEY
Edited and introduced by
Benjamin Isitt and Ravi Malhotra
Canadian Committee
on Labour History
Copyright © 2022 Benjamin Isitt and Ravi Malhotra
Published by AU Press, Athabasca University for the Canadian Committee on
Labour History
1 University Drive, Athabasca, AB T9S 3A3
https://doi.org/10.15215/aupress/9781778290046.01
Cover design by Martyn Schmoll
Printed and bound in Canada
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Title: Class warrior : the selected works of E. T. Kingsley / E. T. Kingsley ; edited
and introduced by Benjamin Isitt and Ravi Malhotra.
Other titles: Works. Selections
Names: Kingsley, E. T., author. | Isitt, Benjamin, 1978– editor, writer of
introduction. | Malhotra, Ravi (Professor), editor, writer of introduction. |
Canadian Committee on Labour History, issuing body.
Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 2022028637X | Canadiana (ebook) 20220286582 |
ISBN 9781778290046 (softcover) | ISBN 9781771993708 (PDF) |
ISBN 9781771993715 (EPUB)
Subjects: LCSH: Kingsley, E. T. | LCSH: Socialism—C anada— History—
20th century. | LCSH: Labor movement— Canada— History— 20th century.
| LCSH: Politicians— Canada— History— 20th century. | LCSH:
Socialists— Canada— History— 20th century. | LCSH: Amputees—
Canada— History— 20th century. | LCSH: Canada— Politics and
government—1 867– 1914. | CSH: Canada— Politics and government—
1896– 1911.
Classification: LCC HX101.5 .K56 2022 | DDC 320.53/10971— dc23
Portrait of E. T. Kingsley courtesy of British Columbia Federationist (Vancouver),
1916.
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Eugene Thornton Kingsley (1856– 1929)
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I intend to live to see the flag of freedom
float o’er every country on top of this earth!
— E. T. Kingsley,
speech in Vancouver City Hall,
24 December 1905
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Contents
Foreword
E. T. Kingsley: Canadian Marxism’s “Old Man” xiii
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 3
Part I: Selected Writings of E. T. Kingsley
1900 On Washington State’s Primary Law 37
1903 On Political Action 40
On Reformism and Electoral “Fusion” 42
On Trade Unions 45
1905 On the Single Tax 48
On a Journey to Seattle 50
1906 On the Arrest of US Labour Leaders and State Power 53
1908 On the Socialist Movement and Travels across Canada 56
1909 On War 62
On the Vancouver Free Speech Fight 65
1911 On Property 68
On the Workers’ Awakening 70
On Economic Organization 72
On the Capitalist State 75
1914 On the Causes of the First World War 78
1916 On Carnage 81
1917 On Slavery and War 84
On War Finance 87
On the War Effort 94
1918 On the Bolshevik Revolution 101
On Capitalism Getting Rich Quick 104
1919 On Control of the State by the Working Class 108
On Reconstruction 113
On Collaboration between Labour and Capital 118
On Wealth 124
On Gold 128
On Class War 132
On the Paris Peace Conference 138
On Capitalist Civilization 141
1921 On the 1921 Canadian Parliamentary Election 145
Part II: Selected Speeches of E. T. Kingsley
1895 On the Aims of Socialism 151
1896 On Socialism and the Economy 152
1899 On American Imperialism in Cuba and the Philippines 154
1903 On the Labour Problem 157
On the Political Organization of Miners in Cumberland 159
On Stirring the Emotions of His Audience 161
On Wages, Profit, and Capital 163
On the 1903 British Columbia Election 168
1905 On the 1905 Russian Revolution 174
On Workers and Rockefeller 176
On the Mission of the Working Class 178
1906 On the Paris Commune 182
1908 On Labour and Its Economies 184
On the Working Class Using Clubs If Necessary 188
On Working- Class Political Power 191
1912 On the Vancouver Free Speech Fight 195
1913 On the Vancouver Island Miners’ Strike 198
1914 On the Komagata Maru Incident 200
1917 On Conscription 202
On Working-Class Opposition to Conscription 206