"A Real WEA Tutor": G. D. H. Cole, Socialist Democracy, and the Politics of Persona.

IF 0.9 2区哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY

JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI:10.1353/jhi.2025.a966907

Sophie Scott-Brown

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Abstract

G. D. H. Cole is best known as a disillusioned theorist of guild socialism, but this article argues his work here must be read in tandem with his ideas of workers' education. It focuses on his construction of the WEA tutor who, as a pedagogical and political persona, embodied and transmitted the qualities needed to sustain a socialist democracy. In this way, Cole reconciled commitments to pluralism and individuality with a practical political program. Although dismissed as naive in the 1930s, this persona proved influential for early New Left thinkers seeking alternatives to the pessimism of the Cold War liberal critique.

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“一个真正的WEA导师”：g.d.h.科尔，社会主义民主和政治人物。

g·d·h·科尔最为人所知的身份是一个幻灭的行会社会主义理论家，但本文认为，他在这里的工作必须与他的工人教育思想结合起来阅读。它着重于他对WEA导师的塑造，作为一个教学和政治人物，他体现并传播了维持社会主义民主所需的品质。通过这种方式，科尔调和了对多元化和个性的承诺与实际的政治计划。尽管在20世纪30年代被视为幼稚，但这一角色对早期新左派思想家产生了影响，他们寻求替代冷战自由主义批评的悲观主义。

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