Love and friendship - Ethical socialism in Britain and Australia

The restoration of a British context to Australian historical writing has b een a significant trend of recent years, but it has so far had little impac t on Australian labour history, and even less on the history of radical pol itical thought and organisation. This paper analyses one strand of Australi an radical thought--ethical socialism--and seeks to illuminate the manner i n which British radical ideas have been received and adapted in the antipod es, shaping radical intellectuals' conceptions of the social and the self i n late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century Australia.