"From the Social Gospel to "The Plain Bread of Leninism
A.E. Smith's Journey to the Left in the Epoch of Reaction after World War I
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7327799 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tom Mitchell (0000-0001-8675-0141, Brandon University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Pages | 125-125 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Labour / Le Travail (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0700-3862 • E-ISSN: 1911-4842 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/25143791 |
| OpenAlex | W1560602878 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
A.E. Smith was a central figure in the Communist Party from the mid-1920s until his death in 1947. An advocate of the radical Social Gospel until at least 1923, Smith's interchange with leading members of the Canadian Communist movement, the growing prestige of the Soviet State, and his disillusionment with the social democratic movement in Canada and abroad, combined during the post-war epoch of reaction to cause a shift in his perspective away from the optimistic verities of the Social Gospel to his apocalyptic vision of the Communist International. While he retained his basic epistemological perspective after 1923, Smith's estrangement from the non-Communist left led to his political isolation and, in early 1925, to his entry into the Communist Party. Resumes A.E. Smith etait l'un des personnages centraux du Parti communiste et ce, du milieu des annees vingt a son deces, en 1947. Ardent defenseur du Social Gospel dans sa version la plus radicale, du moins jusqu'en 1923, ses echanges avec les dirigeants du mouvement communiste au Canada, le prestige croissant de l'Etat sovietique et ses deceptions vis-a-vis du mouvement social-democrate au Canada et a l'etranger ont concouru a l'amener, pendant la periode d'apres-guerre, a abandonner progressivement sa foi dans les verites empreintes d'optimisme du Social Gospel et plutot a endosser la vision apocalyptique de l'Internationale communiste. Bien que Smith ait conserve apres 1923 une philosophie d'essence epistemologique, son eloignement par rapport a la gauche non communiste a contribue a son isolement politique et a son entree dans le Parti communiste, au debut de 1925
Art · Communism · Democracy · Ethnology · Gospel · Humanities · Political science · Politics · Prestige · Social Gospel · Sociology · Theology · Canadian Identity and History · Law · Philosophy
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2013 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |