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To What Extent Did Socialism and Syndicalism Threaten the Establishment 1910-1914?
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To What Extent Did Socialism and Syndicalism Threaten the Establishment 1910-1914? Socialism was defined by Kier Hardie in a speech to the House of Commons as "placing land and the instruments of production in the hands of the community."1 Socialism was a political and economic ideology that grew in strength across the Europe in the latter half of the 19th Century with the intent of gaining rights and sharing the wealth with the disenfranchised and impoverished of lower classes, even if this meant through revolution. Socialism in its modern form occurred in Britain in the 1880s but quickly fell into decline again. However, at the beginning of the 20th Century a socialist political party, named the Labour Party, was developed and gaining strength by 1910. At the same time, a radical anarchic strand of socialism, known as syndicalism, was amalgamating trade unions and leading general strikes across Britain. This period, 1910-14,...
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