Abstract
The document contains a detailed outline for an analysis of the speech given by British politician Keir Hardie in 1914, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Independent Labour Party.
Extract
[...] As Hardie's speech embodies it, the ILP tried to attract more and more many different causes of its time, from the women's rights (the suffragettes ») to the poor conditions. - Even with its some « 30,000 » people (1914), the ILP has ever had some problems into getting politically distinguished from the Labour Party as until 1918, individuals could, for example, only join the Labour Party through an affiliated body, the most significant of which were the Fabian Society and the ILP. [...]
[...] A party led by the qualities of an orator: - Cult of personality: a talented orator using specific, emphazing and personal expressions to gain the audience attention. Exaggerations: this is hold like a show « callous greed ». - Mix of low social class and intellectual terms in his speech. « I shall not weary you »/ Coal mines' middle-class terms: to toil (Middle English term). B. Personal bias mixed with the interests of a period: - Reference to Darwinian revolution: science and religion (proceedings of the British Academy 129-147 Darwinism and Victorian Values: Threat or Opportunity? [...]
[...] Sunshine of Socialism - Keir Hardie (1914) - How does Keir Hardie Bradford's speech modulate as well as it foreshadows the strengths and the weaknesses of an iconic political formation? A due celebration: A. The ILP peak period: - This speech is recalled as the « Sunshine Socialism » speech, a strong victory message in Bradford, where the party was founded in 1893. - Strength reinforced by the « Magnificent victory » of the ILP on the suffrage issue. (Democratic Ideas and the British Labour Movement, 1880-1914, De Logie Barrow, Ian Bullock). [...]
