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62:. But their initial plans were stymied when his father died shortly after their return. Young John was then lodged with a relative and was apprenticed into the printing trade around the West Riding. He moved back to Leeds in 1832 and worked on a local paper and became involved in the working class movement in Leeds, including the 148:. In short a belief that the source of employers profits is an unequal exchange with employees in which the latter is not paid the full value of their labor. The remedy then is based on creating a society of equal exchange between producers at fair value. Bray's ideas in this sense are in the tradition of 90:, where he began a family and later moved from printing into farming on a nearby farm. During the 1850s and 1860s he was active in the Democratic and working class movement locally and throughout the midwest. He wrote articles and lectured around the midwest opposing a range of social ills from 159:, who calls "Labour's Wrongs, and Labour's Remedy" "his remarkable work", Bray had called for the establishing of "equitable labour exchanges", not "as a solution of the social problem" but "only a means of smoothing over the transition from the capitalist to the communist 85:
Following the repression of the first wave of the Chartist Movement in the wake of the abortive uprising attempts of 1839 and the economic depression of 1841-1842, Bray returned to the US in 1842 and became a printer in Detroit. He later moved to
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The coming age devoted to the fraternisation and advancement of mankind through religious, political and social reforms. No. 1 Spiritualism founded on a fallacy
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proposals. Indeed, Bray's economics are those that have somewhat controversially (see Noel Thompson reference) been ascribed to the
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American destiny what shall it be? Republican or Cossack? An argument addressed to the people of the late Union North and South
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in 1837 and became its first treasurer. He delivered a number of lectures to the membership from which his first pamphlet
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and other towns", but "after absorbing vast capital, had gone bankrupt under scandalous circumstances."
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God and man a unity and all mankind a unity; a basis for a new dispensation social and religious
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The People's Science: The Popular Political Economy of Exploitation and Crisis, 1816-1834
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No. 2 The origin of mundane and human energies unfavourable to spiritualism
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Catalogue of the papers of John Francis Bray held at LSE Archives
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Chartists in Leeds - home of the Northern Star and civic Chartism
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Government and society considered in relation to first principles
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A Voyage from Utopia to Several Unknown Regions of the World
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Marx, Karl, "The Poverty of Philosophy", New York(1963).
110:. As an old man he helped to shape the politics of the 26:(26 June 1809 – 1 February 1897) was a radical, 388: 248:Carr, H. J. (1940). "John Francis Bray". 323:John Francis Bray: Transatlantic Radical 307: 202:, (written 1842; published posthumously) 241: 50:family of farmers and clothiers around 389: 117: 16:For other people named John Bray, see 290: 247: 294:Labour's Wrongs and Labour's Remedy 186:Labour's wrongs and labour's remedy 124:Labour's Wrongs and Labour's Remedy 80:Labour's Wrongs and Labour's Remedy 13: 14: 448: 417:American male non-fiction writers 338: 308:Lafargue, Paul (September 1897). 54:. In 1822 they moved back to the 407:19th-century American economists 312:. Translated by Edward Aveling. 310:"Socialism in France 1874-1896" 297:. Leeds: David Green, Briggate. 178: 76:Leeds Working Men's Association 66:, then growing in Leeds around 301: 284: 155:According to French Socialist 74:. He also helped to found the 1: 234: 432:American trade union leaders 427:People from Washington, D.C. 7: 355: 291:Bray, John Francis (1839). 10: 453: 18:John Bray (disambiguation) 15: 137:The Poverty of Philosophy 188:, Leeds, England (1839). 126:is quoted at length by 37: 412:American abolitionists 130:in his 1847 attack on 42:John Bray was born in 104:Socialist Labor Party 34:" of American labor. 437:Socialist economists 226:Bray, John Francis, 219:Bray, John Francis, 212:Bray, John Francis, 205:Bray, John Francis, 198:Bray, John Francis, 191:Bray, John Francis, 184:Bray, John Francis, 146:Ricardian socialists 382:Ricardian socialism 327:Thompson, Noel W., 118:Ideas and influence 102:. He supported the 321:Bronstein, Jamie, 88:Pontiac, Michigan 64:Chartist Movement 32:Benjamin Franklin 24:John Francis Bray 444: 367:Market socialism 331:, London (1989). 314: 313: 305: 299: 298: 288: 282: 281: 245: 150:market socialism 122:Bray's pamphlet 108:Knights of Labor 68:Feargus O'Connor 44:Washington, D.C. 452: 451: 447: 446: 445: 443: 442: 441: 387: 386: 358: 341: 318: 317: 306: 302: 289: 285: 262:10.2307/2550233 256:(28): 397–415. 246: 242: 237: 181: 120: 106:and joined the 40: 21: 12: 11: 5: 450: 440: 439: 434: 429: 424: 419: 414: 409: 404: 399: 385: 384: 379: 374: 369: 364: 357: 354: 353: 352: 347: 340: 339:External links 337: 336: 335: 332: 325: 316: 315: 300: 283: 239: 238: 236: 233: 232: 231: 224: 217: 210: 203: 196: 189: 180: 177: 119: 116: 114:of the 1890s. 112:Populist Party 39: 36: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 449: 438: 435: 433: 430: 428: 425: 423: 420: 418: 415: 413: 410: 408: 405: 403: 400: 398: 395: 394: 392: 383: 380: 378: 375: 373: 370: 368: 365: 363: 360: 359: 351: 348: 346: 343: 342: 333: 330: 326: 324: 320: 319: 311: 304: 296: 295: 287: 279: 275: 271: 267: 263: 259: 255: 251: 244: 240: 229: 225: 222: 218: 215: 211: 208: 204: 201: 197: 194: 190: 187: 183: 182: 176: 174: 170: 166: 162: 158: 157:Paul Lafargue 153: 151: 147: 143: 139: 138: 133: 129: 125: 115: 113: 109: 105: 101: 97: 93: 89: 83: 81: 77: 73: 72:Northern Star 69: 65: 61: 57: 53: 49: 45: 35: 33: 29: 25: 19: 328: 322: 303: 293: 286: 253: 249: 243: 227: 220: 213: 206: 199: 192: 185: 179:Bibliography 160: 154: 135: 123: 121: 92:Spiritualism 84: 79: 52:Huddersfield 41: 23: 22: 402:1897 deaths 397:1809 births 82:was drawn. 56:West Riding 391:Categories 235:References 422:Chartists 372:Mutualism 270:0013-0427 250:Economica 169:Sheffield 142:mutualist 128:Karl Marx 96:Civil War 48:Yorkshire 362:Chartism 356:See also 230:, (1879) 223:, (1864) 216:, (1855) 209:, (1855) 195:, (1842) 132:Proudhon 28:chartist 377:Owenism 278:2550233 100:slavery 94:to the 276:  268:  165:London 161:régime 274:JSTOR 173:Leeds 60:Leeds 58:, to 266:ISSN 98:and 38:Life 258:doi 70:'s 393:: 272:. 264:. 252:. 171:, 167:, 152:. 134:, 280:. 260:: 254:7 20:.

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John Bray (disambiguation)
chartist
Benjamin Franklin
Washington, D.C.
Yorkshire
Huddersfield
West Riding
Leeds
Chartist Movement
Feargus O'Connor
Northern Star
Leeds Working Men's Association
Pontiac, Michigan
Spiritualism
Civil War
slavery
Socialist Labor Party
Knights of Labor
Populist Party
Karl Marx
Proudhon
The Poverty of Philosophy
mutualist
Ricardian socialists
market socialism
Paul Lafargue
London
Sheffield
Leeds
doi

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