Socialist Thought
of Forerunners Vol 1 (1789-1850)-G D H
COLE published by London Macmillan in 1953
This vol is having
27 chapters and running to 363 pages. Cole's
mega laboured project History of Socialist Thought is 5 volumes- some
volumes with part 1 and part 2 also. Totally they me be more than 3000 pages.
It is even difficult for ordinary person like me to read even that 3000 pages.
But That scholar Cole ( friend of Sydney webb, Isaiah Berlin etc.. there may be
contradictions between them- having Fabian Socialist research background) laboured like anything to write
these great volumes for the future generations to learn and relearn. I first salute
his labour. George Douglas Howard Cole (1889-1959) just lived 70 years and his
wife Dame margaret Postgate Cole (1893-1980) 87 years.
I started reading the first Vol... It is a big project for me even to read and understand..time
only will tell whether I can succeed.
According to me
Reading is also a kind of Doing and Doing a kind of Reading. This I have been telling
for the last many years when some of my friends having a negative idea about
people who read and labour a lot
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