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Henry Hyndman

Henry Mayers Hyndman (/ˈhaɪndmən/; 7 March 1842 – 22 November 1921) was an English writer, politician and socialist.

Henry Hyndman

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Henry Mayers Hyndman

(1842-03-07)7 March 1842
London, England

22 November 1921(1921-11-22) (aged 79)
Hampstead, England

Social Democratic Federation (after 1881)
Conservative (until 1881)

Matilda Ware
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(m. 1876; died 1913)​

Rosalind Travers
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(m. 1914)​

Trinity College, Cambridge

Originally a conservative, he was converted to socialism by Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto and launched Britain's first socialist political party, the Democratic Federation, later known as the Social Democratic Federation, in 1881.


Although this body attracted radicals such as William Morris and George Lansbury, Hyndman was generally disliked as an authoritarian who could not unite his party. Nonetheless, Hyndman was the first author to popularise Marx's works in English.

A Commune for London (1888)

England For All

The Bankruptcy of India

Commercial Crisis of the Nineteenth Century (1892)

Economics of Socialism (1890)

The Record of an Adventurous Life

The Future of Democracy (1915)

The Awakening of Asia (1919)

The Evolution of Revolution (1921)

History of the socialist movement in the United Kingdom

Flaherty, Seamus. "H. M. Hyndman and the Intellectual Origins of the Remaking of Socialism in Britain, 1878–1881." English Historical Review 134.569 (2019): 855–880.

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Works by Henry Mayers Hyndman

Cricket Archive

Marxists Internet Archive.

Henry Hyndman Internet Archive

(1892)

H. M. Hyndman, Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century