Marx’s Irish forerunner
William Thompson and the birth of revolutionary socialism. Reading James Connolly’s 1910 Labor in Irish History.
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]The Irish philosopher and economist William Thompson (1775-1833) is a little-known but important contributor to the early development of the socialist movement in Europe. A frugal vegetarian, feminist, and socialist, Thompson advocated for suffrage for adults of each sex, as a necessary step toward socialism, as well as free education for…
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