Curtin's Call 5: The Social Question

By Kevin McCauley

John Curtin began his political life as a radical socialist. He was a member of both the Victorian Socialist Party (VSP)and the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He was influenced by two men: Frank Anstey, a Labor Member of the Federal Parliament; and, Tom Mann, who lived and agitated in Australia before the Great War and who would later (out of despair at the socialist project?) become a founding member of the British Communist Party. For Curtin, socialism did not mean the Marxist class war but meant the uplift of the ordinary man in a social-economic order that did in fact, value personal initiative and the right to personal private property.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08VYFJTP2
• ISBN13: 9798705301614
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"