League for Social Reconstruction
- League for Social Reconstruction
The League for Social Reconstruction was a circle of Canadian socialist intellectuals formed in 1931 by academics advocating radical social and economic reforms and political education as a response to the Great Depression.
Origins and Ideology
Its leading members were F.R. Scott, Frank Underhill, Graham Spry, Eric A. Havelock, and Eugene Forsey. The LSR was critical of capitalism and advocated democratic socialist reforms and a planned economy. Though the group was never formally part of a political party it had J.S. Woodsworth as its honorary president and was heavily involved in the founding of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in 1932 and in the drafting of the Regina Manifesto in 1933. The LSR dissolved in 1942 as most of its members had transferred their political activism to the CCF. [Horn, vii]
Publications
The LSR made its views known through the magazine "New Commonwealth" (formerly the "Farmer's Sun", publication of the United Farmers of Ontario until purchased by Graham Spry). The group further contributed to Canada's political and intellectual fields with two books, "Social Planning for Canada" (1935) and "Democracy Needs Socialism" (1938). "Canadian Forum" was saved from bankruptcy by the LSR, which was acquired in the journal in 1936 and continued its publication. With these texts, social and economic change policies were popularized. [Horn, vii]
Notes
References
*Horn, Michiel. "League for Social Reconstruction: Socialism and nationalism in Canada, 1931-1945." Toronto: University of Toronto., 1980.
ee also
*Fabian Society
*social democracy
*New Democratic Party
*Douglas-Coldwell Foundation
External links
* [http://www.canadahistory.com/sections/documents/1932_manifesto_-_league_for_social_reform.htm Manifesto of the League for Social Reconstruction (1932). [Horn, vii]
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