Morris Hillquit

[Noa Rodman]

"Morris Hillquit is considered by some to have been the foremost spokesman and theoretician of the Socialist Party of America from its founding in 1901 until his death in 1933."

Yet his name isn't even listed on marxists.org

A review of his autobiography Loose Leaves from a Busy Life, in The American Mercury, September 1934, pp. 122-123:
http://www.unz.org/Pub/AmMercury-1934sep-00122?View=PDF

Some of his major writings online: http://archive.org/search.php?query=hillquit

Some short pieces I found:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/48703268/Murderous-War-in-Europe-is-the-Inevitable-Culmination-of-Murderous-European-Capitalism-by-Morris-Hillquit-Sept-5-1914

http://www.scribd.com/doc/48703475/The-Collapse-of-the-International-by-Morris-Hillquit-May-1-1915

http://www.marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/spusa/1932/0507-hillquit-reactionaryinternational.pdf (so Hillquit's SP should be mentioned alongside the Serbian and Russian socialists who opposed the war)


http://www.marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/spusa/1932/0928-patterson-hillquitcorrespondence.pdf

Shachtman approvingly quoting Hillquit (from 1909) regarding prospect of a Labor Party: http://www.marxists.org/archive/shachtma/1937/02/labparty.htm

His papers: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/KCL05430mf.html

Kautsky wrote for him on his 60th birthday (The New Leader, Nr. 8 - 28. IX.). They corresponded a little bit (11 letters). Kautsky also kept an article of the polemic between Hillquit and L.B. Boudin about "Socialism and law" in "The Call".

It would be good to find his polemics (eg against DeLeon and Gompers) and make them available. It shouldn't be that hard to do.

[Noa Rodman]

In Die neue Zeit (besides 2 book reviews):
Das Einwanderungsproblem in den Vereinigten Staaten (http://library.fes.de/cgi-bin/neuzeit.pl?id=07.06359&dok=1906-07b&f=190607b_0444&l=190607b_0455)

Die Hauptströmungen in der sozialistischen Bewegung der Vereinigten Staaten (http://library.fes.de/cgi-bin/neuzeit.pl?id=07.08308&dok=1911-12b&f=191112b_0200&l=191112b_0204)

Eine sozialistische Staatsverfassung (http://library.fes.de/cgi-bin/neuzeit.pl?id=07.07741&dok=1910-11a&f=191011a_0287&l=191011a_0293)

In Sozialistische Monatshefte;
Die gegenwärtige Lage des amerikanischen Sozialismus (http://library.fes.de/cgi-bin/digisomo.pl?id=03418&dok=1907/1907_04&f=1907_0296&l=1907_0302)

Die gegenwärtige Lage des amerikanischen Gewerkschaftswesens (http://library.fes.de/cgi-bin/digisomo.pl?id=03426&dok=1907/1907_05&f=1907_0377&l=1907_0383)

Probleme des nordamerikanischen Sozialismus (http://library.fes.de/cgi-bin/digisomo.pl?id=02913&dok=1910/1910_16_18&f=1910_1091&l=1910_1095)

In Die Gesellschaft. Internationale Revue für Sozialismus und Politik (but not online):

Aufgaben und Aussichten des amerikanischen Sozialismus (1924, Juli, 350)

Amerikanische Arbeiterpolitik (1925, H.5, 393)

His views seem far more relevant to investigate than all the debates we have about Luxemburg/Bordiga/Mao etc.

[Noa Rodman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Call

"The New York Call was a socialist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism) daily newspaper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper) published in New York City (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City) from 1908 through 1923. The Call was the second of three English-language dailies affiliated with the Socialist Party of America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Party_of_America) to be established, following the Chicago Daily Socialist (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chicago_Daily_Socialist&action=edit&redlink=1) (1906-1912) while preceding the long running Milwaukee Leader (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_Leader) (1911-1938)."

"the Call [was] firmly in the hands of loyalists to Morris Hillquit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Hillquit)."

"New York socialists, facing the prospect of no English-language paper in the city for the first time in more than three decades immediately met and made plans for a new weekly, to be called The New Leader (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Leader) [(1924-2006)].


This would be a place to start looking for Hillquit's articles (the polemic with Boudin especially).

[Noa Rodman]

Where Are the Pre-War Radicals?
(Hillquit): http://www.unz.org/Pub/TheSurvey-1926feb01-00562

"This motley 'radicalism' had neither coherence nor substance, neither program nor material foundation. ... In the War it proved without conviction and courage."

[The Idler]

Good work on this, I would be interested in more information.

[Noa Rodman]

couple of speeches;

https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/culture/pubs/liberator/index.htm

Issue No. 4, June, 1918
Hillquit's speech to the jury pp. 14-17
Speech of Morris Hillquit at the Masses Dinner, May 9 pp. 20-21

Issue No. 5, July, 1918
“Labor and the War” — Morris Hillquit — pp. 21-22.

[The Idler]

If you want Hillquit to be added to marxists.org they may be amenable.

[GiantMonkeyMan]

It's really cool that you've collected all this. There's so much about the history of the labour movement across the world that just gets lost. :thumbup1:

[Noa Rodman]

a whole bunch of new uploads:
http://www.marxisthistory.org/subject/usa/eam/13-26.html

[The Idler]

You're a legend.

[DaringMehring]

I think he is properly immortalized in this song, courtesy of anonymous New York communists of the 20s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7gS25pfTDg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ2B64qa1gA

[Noa Rodman]

The polemic between Hillquit und L.B. Boudin is accessible in the Kautsky Papers (which are now online): http://search.socialhistory.org/Record/ARCH00712/Description

[Noa Rodman]

Now also online, among others (http://socialhistory.org/en/news/leading-iish-collections-made-available-online) (!), are the archives of the Labour and Socialist International (http://search.socialhistory.org/Record/ARCH01368). See document nr. 2893. - Hillquit, M. und V. New York. 1923-1931.142 Bl (or 77 pages in the pdf-file) It mostly contains informative correspondence with Friedrich Adler, but it includes also a lengthy article called The foreign policy of the United States (21-28 p.), one about how The communists pay tribute (to Debs, p.32-34), New International developments and Tasks (p. 46-52, for the 3rd congress of the LSI held in Brussels 1928), and After the American presidential election (p. 58-62).

[Noa Rodman]

Just some other links:

The Meaning of May Day (http://www.marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/spusa/1906/0501-hillquit-meaningofmayday.pdf)(1906)
Hillquit at Convention Declares Party is Not Made Up of Pacifists (http://www.marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/spusa/1917/0408-engdahl-bigopportunity.pdf)
The Turning Point in Human History (http://www.marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/spusa/1919/0101-hillquit-turningpoint.pdf) (new year 1919)
Keynote speech at Socialist Convention (http://www.marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/spusa/1920/0513-newage-spaconvention.pdf)(May 1920)
Dictatorship and the International. (http://www.marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/spusa/1920/0500-hillquit-dictatorship.pdf)
Letter to Eugene V. Debs at Atlanta Federal Prison (http://www.marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/spusa/1920/0630-hillquit-todebs.pdf)
The Moscow International (http://www.marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/spusa/1920/0923-hillquit-moscowint.pdf)
Radicalism in America (http://www.marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/spusa/1920/1015-hillquit-radicalism.pdf)
The Story of the British Labor Party (http://www.marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/spusa/1924/0000-hillquit-laborparty.pdf)
Keynote Speech to the 1932 Socialist Party Convention (http://www.marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/spusa/1932/0521-hillquit-keynotespeech.pdf)

I give some titles from The New Leader (http://search.opinionarchives.com/TNL_Web/DigitalArchive.aspx?panes=2); NEW PROBLEMS FOR RADICALS (1924); MAY DAY REFLECTIONS ON LASSALLE (1925); The Miners Struggle (1926);How the Courts Usurped the Role of Industrial Arbiters; SEEDS OF THE NEW SOCIAL ORDER IN THE OLD; A SOCIALIST PROGRAM FOR THE UNITED STATES (1927); The Paradox of American Labor (1931)

Only the first line of an article is viewable though. It's a high quality journal, eg they printed Lassalle's The mission of the working class. http://search.opinionarchives.com/TNL_Web/BrowseIssues.aspx?sess=&issue=1924/1/1/1

Here is William Feigenbaum's obituary to Hillquit: https://archive.org/stream/letUsReviewTheSceneWithWilliamFeigenbaum/LURS#page/n13/mode/1up

[Noa Rodman]

http://www.c-span.org/video/?325264-1/jack-ross-socialist-party-america

Jack Ross talked about his book The Socialist Party of America

[Noa Rodman]

The New York Call online (1909–23):

http://fultonhistory.com/my%20photo%20albums/All%20Newspapers/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Call/index.html

[Blake's Baby]

Noa, you've done an amazing job here.

[The Idler]

Thanks once again for more Socialist Party of America info. Do you have any of the 1899 editions of the people produced by the Hillquit Rochester SLP faction against the DeLeon 'official' faction?

[Noa Rodman]

The People (1891) doesn't seem online.

1900 debate between De Leon and Job Harriman: http://debs.indstate.edu/d346s62_1900.pdf

There's some stuff (including a short passage (http://www.marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/spusa/1934/0000-hillquit-ondeleon.pdf) from Hillquit's memoirs) also here: http://www.marxisthistory.org/subject/usa/eam/year1899downloads.html