Ellerman criticises earlier proponents of the labour theory of property, including Proudhon and classical
labourists such as William Thompson and Thomas Hodgskin, for failing to systematically emphasise the negative product of labour.
This trend, however, brought tensions between Movement supporters and
labourists to the surface, resulting in the bitter 'Split' of 1956-57 when the former were effectively driven from Labor's ranks.
There are '
labourists', who insist on the preservation of the situation, whereby the labour of athletes can be regulated only by labour law, as was indicated in the 1999 law on sport.
Clapped-out
Labourists now constitute a permanent right-wing opposition in the House of Commons".
As many writers have noted, the latter conflicts often had a strong ethnic component, with
labourists and social democrats organizing Anglo-Saxons and Communists minority ethnics.
The Winnipeg of a century ago was a leftist hotbed where Marxist social democrats, anarchists, syndicalists, evolutionary socialists,
labourists, Fabians, and other radicals mingled and circulated in solidarity at political demonstrations and events.
These
labourists, along with some socialists in the SDP, believed that social transformation would take place gradually through reforms, not revolution.
In their political activities, OBU men constructed what Karen Dubinsky, in another context, has called "a complex web of male chauvinism and genuine compassion, class analysis and silly sensationalism." (15) Drawing upon already existing practices espoused by, for example Canadian
labourists and American Wobblies, as well as fashioning new ones, OBU men created images which distinguished radical manhood from both the class politics and the masculinities of male bosses and scabs.
Their insinuations were typical of many
labourists and socialists when faced with the more extreme radicalism of the IWW and were at least in part politically motivated.
Focusing on the CPC's bid to establish its ideological hegemony over "labourism" (the peculiar Canadian variant of what the third International [Comintern] termed "reformism"), I show how communist cadres "bored from within" the craft union movement and how
labourists resisted them.
What Leier shows is that a relatively small group of men can be identified as persistent officeholders in this organization, that they can be divided into two groups --
labourists and socialists -- and that these two groups of people differed not only ideologically but also sociologically.
What
labourists held in common, Heron argued, was their assertion of "radical democracy in the face of political corruption and, perhaps more importantly, elitist theories of the state." "[T]hey seemed on the whole [suspicious] of state intervention into social life, and preferred self-help and self-improvement through individual and co-operative activity on a voluntary basis -- from temperance, to technical education, to trade unionism." (47) This complex of ideas seems to set the Canadian
labourist program somewhat apart from the pre-Keynesian statism of contemporary ALP leadership, this undoubtedly explained less by essentialist national values than by differential access to political power in the state.