CONTENTS
Acknowledgements = ⅸ
List of abbreviations = xii
Introduction: Socialism and political thought = 1
The problerm of socialist politics = 5
Owenism and political thought = 14
Labour history and the language of politics = 17
Outline = 19
PART Ⅰ THE ROOTS, OF POLITICAL AND ANTIPOLITICAL SOCIALISM = 21
1 Republicanism, puritanism and natural jurisprudence = 23
The republican heritage = 26
Millennial republicanism and puritan radicalism = 30
Natural society = 36
Two natural polities: Quakerism and the North American Indians = 42
Independence, specialisation and rational character = 49
The language Of socialism = 58
2 Paternalism and democracy in the politics of Robert Owen = 63
Governing circumstances, 1816-34 = 67
'The germ of all party': anti-politics triumphant = 75
'Elective paternal government' and the Chartist years = 84
Paternalism and federalism: the millennial republic = 94
PART Ⅱ SOCIAL SCIENCE, POLITY AND ECONOMY = 107
3 The 'eye of the community': social science as communitarian government = 109
Social control and natural psychology = 110
The illocutionary force of necessitarianism = 115
Communitarianism and personal liberty = 119
Constitutionalism and early communitarianism = 129
4 'A mere trifle by comparison': social science, republicanism and political economy = 142
Machinery and the progress of opulence = 146
The case against the taxation analysis = 150
The American model = 152
Intervention and administration = 161
PART Ⅲ THE ORIGINS OF SOCIAL RADICALISM = 167
5 Owenism and the emergence of social radicalism, 1820-35 = 169
The 'unpolitical' years, 1820-29 = 170
Socialism politicised, 1829-35 = 174
The National Union of the Working Classes, 1831-35 = 183
The social radicalism of James Bronterre O'Brien = 189
Union without politics: the Grand National Consolidated
Trades' Union and radicalism, 1833-34 = 194
The political odyssey of James Elishama Smith = 199
6 Owenism and Chartism, 1836-45 = 208
Chartist complaints = 212
Owenite grievances = 218
Charter socialism = 223
The Rational Society and the revolt over Queenwood = 247
7 The legitimation of political socialism = 261
Owenism radicalised, 1845-50 = 262
Chartism socialised, 1845-50 = 268
Alliance strategies, 1850-52 = 273
8 Social radicalism, the state and revolution = 285
Early and modern political socialism = 287
The American model revisited = 292
Politics and revolution = 296
Communitarianism and Marxism = 299
Republicanism revived = 306
Intervention and centralisation = 309
Conclusion: the state and the origins of social radicalism = 318
Bibliography = 327
Index = 353
