Reviews for Conscience and slavery

The average rating for Conscience and slavery based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-10-07 00:00:00 Steven Dong This book is an excellent, inspiring history of a radical publishing house that has now lasted over 100 years. You get the ins and outs of the struggles between American socialists, anarchists, and syndicalists, and the government. Trust me, it is not boring. It was a unique time, when there was a world to be won. My only quibble with the book is that it has numerous typos that should have been caught.

Review # 2 was written on 2021-01-12 00:00:00 Eric Glaser A good, clear, if not particularly exciting, account of the 19th–20th century Chicago socialist publisher. Its founder started as a Unitarian reformer and slowly swayed leftward under the influence of utopian/scientific socialism before the turn of the century. He exemplified a shift from avant-garde educating the masses to a rank-and-file–centered, working class media, where union organizing and political action were seen as supremely practical things. The company's connection to Bill Haywood and its popular proletarian periodicals kept it going, even as it tried to escape sectarian socialist conflict. In the end, its anti-war stance, economic depression, and the active suppression of socialists in the 1910s and 1920s reduced the company and the socialist movement it depended on to shadows of their former selves. The company continued to exist up through the 1980s, stewarded by later activists.