Appeal Socialist Classics, No. 10: The Tactics of Socialism, pp. 1-63
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The Next Step: A Benevolent Feudalism (Classic Reprint)
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It lies with the popular mandate to de termine which of two powerful tenden cies is to be supported - the one making for Industrial Democracy and the other making for Industrial Oligarchy.
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The final chapter of A. M. Simons' The American Farmer points the way to the Socialist goal. A chapter of pertinent reminders to the farmers of America, by Allan L. Benson, furnishes the conclusion. W. J. G.
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The road to Oregon: A chronicle of the great emigrant trail
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New York City, New York; Tudor Publishing Co.; 1934; 9 1/2"H x 6 1/2"W 274 Pages; Hardcover; Very Good+ with no dust jacket; Green Cloth Hardcover;; In 1848 Francis Parkman published THE OREGON AND CALIFORNIATRAIL. It is a book that has had many hundreds and thousands of readers, and doubtless will always be popular. To students, however, it is disappointing by reason of what it omits. Of the Trail itself the book gives little information. Parkman was ill; he was young, and he had not fully developed that first essential of a historian---the spirit of inquiry....
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William James Ghent was an American socialist journalist and writer.
Background
Ghent was born on April 29, 1866 in Frankfort, Clinton County, Indiana, the sixth of eight children and only son of Ira Keith Ghent and Mary Elizabeth (Palmer) Ghent. The families of both parents had moved to Indiana in the 1830's: the Palmers from Kentucky, the Ghents from Canada, where William's great-grandfather, a North Carolina Loyalist, had settled during the American Revolution. When William was two the family moved to Kansas and took out a homestead, but after six discouraging years they returned to Frankfort, where Ira Ghent opened a drugstore.
Education
William left public school at the age of thirteen for a job as printer's devil on a local newspaper, and soon became a skilled compositor.
Career
Ghent joined the International Typographical Union, a membership he retained for over fifty years, and as a "tramp printer" traveled throughout the United States. In the 1890's Ghent began to write on social and political topics and became active in reform groups. Describing himself as an independent socialist, he participated in the People's party campaign of 1892 in New York City by denouncing the influence of Daniel De Leon and the Socialist Labor party. Ghent's socialism resembled the gradualist, middle-class views of the Bellamyite Nationalists and American Fabians with whom he increasingly associated. In 1894 he helped found the Social Reform Club of New York City, an organization designed to bring workers and middle-class intellectuals together to "better the condition of the wage earner. " He served briefly (1897-1898) as editor of the American Fabian, until his support of the Spanish-American War caused a furor in socialist circles. In 1899 he became literary manager of the campaigns of Samuel M. ("Golden Rule") Jones for reelection as mayor of Toledo and for the governorship of Ohio. Ghent's first and most original book, Our Benevolent Feudalism, was published in 1902. Perceiving financial consolidation as the key trend in American society, he predicted the end of competition and the emergence of a police state in which the ruling industrial capitalists, the new lords of a reborn feudalism, would ensure social peace by bestowing economic security on the working masses. In Mass and Class: A Survey of Social Divisions (1904) he revealed a greater optimism, arguing, despite his general acceptance of Marxian economic analysis, that a collectivist commonwealth would eventually be achieved through democratic means. In the meantime, he declared, many "lawless" activities of labor were justified by intolerable economic conditions. His ingrained aversion to radicalism, however, soon caused him to abandon this view. Ghent joined the growing Socialist party in 1904 and aligned himself with men like Morris Hillquit and Algernon Lee, editor of the Worker, in espousing political and educational activities and opposing labor violence. In 1906 he helped organize the Rand School of Social Science in New York City; he taught classes there, served as its secretary (1906-1909), the only full-time administrative position, and as president (1909-1911). Ghent was an active and articulate expounder of socialism during these years. Although not a "street crowd pleaser, " he was a popular speaker with middle-class audiences. In 1910, despite the opposition of the party's left wing, he endorsed New York State's workmen's compensation law. The following year he became secretary to Socialist Congressman Victor Berger and helped him frame an unsuccessful old age pension bill. At the 1912 Socialist convention Ghent sponsored an amendment to the party's constitution providing for the expulsion of anyone who advocated sabotage or violence, an amendment that was used the following year to oust William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood of the I. W. W. from the national executive committee. Having contracted tuberculosis, Ghent moved in 1913 to Phoenix, Arizona, and the next year to Los Angeles, California, where he continued to lecture and write. He refused to join in the Socialist party's repudiation of World War I, and in 1916 he left the party. With other disaffected socialists, he later formed the prowar Social Democratic League. During the 1920's Ghent became an aggressive opponent of both Marxism and Soviet Russia. Defending capitalism as a bulwark against bolshevism, he wrote articles for several conservative and ultranationalist journals; some of these were collected in his book The Reds Bring Reaction (1923). Ghent returned to New York City in 1924. Three years later he became an editor-writer (1927-1928) on the staff of the Dictionary of American Biography in Washington, D. C. Then, and afterward as a contributor, he wrote a number of articles on figures of the frontier and the Old West, a field in which he had become interested while working as a reference librarian at the University of California in Los Angeles in 1922-1923. During the last decade of his life he published three books on Western subjects. Ghent died at his Washington home of a coronary occlusion at the age of seventy-six. He was buried at Fort Lincoln Cemetery in Washington.
Achievements
Ghent was a journalist, whose main focus was on socialism and on the history of the Westward Expansion of the early United States.
