Reformist Labour Socialism, not Marxism, directed British workers’ politics

Evidence

But it was “Labour Socialism,” the anti-Marxist, reformist, ethical, and pragmatic resolution to the class war, that directed the policies of the British trade unions and the Labour Party, and to which British workers mostly attended: By their very nature the rank and file-the men and women who bought and sold literature rather than wrote it, and listened to speeches rather than gave them-produced very little material of their own. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1218

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: By 1931 Fabian gradualism had installed socialism throughout the British political establishment — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 53; British labor leaders pursued reform through government while Italian counterparts courted revolution — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 277; Labour historians retroactively minimized how close postwar Britain came to revolution — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 339