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Ernest Belfort Bax , também conhecido por E. Belfort Bax, foi um jornalista, fotógrafo e socialista Britânico, associado com a Social Democratic Federation .

Nascido numa família religiosa não-conformista em Leamington Spa, no condado de Warwickshire, conheceu o marxismo enquanto estudava filosofia na Alemanha, tendo mais tarde combinado as ideias de Karl Marx com as de Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer e Eduard von Hartmann. Interessado na exploração de possíveis implicações metafísicas e éticas do socialismo, descreveu uma religião do socialismo como uma maneira de ultrapassar a dicotomia entre o pessoal e o social, e também entre o cognitivo e o emocional. Ele viu-o como um subsituto da religião organizada, sendo um ateísta ferrenho, interessado na libertação dos trabalhadores daquilo que via como moralismos da pequena burguesia.

Bax mudou-se para Berlim e trabalhava como jornalista para o Evening Standard. No seu regresso a Inglaterra, em 1882, juntou-se à SDF, mas desiludiu-se em 1885 e, com William Morris, fundou a Socialist League . Após o controlo da Liga por anarquistas, Bax volta à SDF, na qual se torna teórico-chefe e editor do jornal do partido, Justice. Opos-se à representação do partido no Labour Representation Comittee , e eventualmente persuadiu a SDF a sair.

Durante quase toda a sua vida, viu as condições económicas como boas para o Socialismo, mas sentiu que o progresso era atrasado pela falta de escolaridade da classe trabalhadora. Apoiou Karl Kautsky em detrimento de Eduard Bernstein, mas Kautsky não tinha tempo para o que chamava a utopia de Bax, e apoiou os esforços de Theodore Rothstein para a implementação de um Marxismo mais ortodoxo na SDF.

Um ardenho anti-nacionalista de início, apoiou o Reino Unido na I Guerra Mundial, apesar de não ter feito muito trabalho político devido à sua carreira como barrister .

Bax era um ardenho antifeminista, tendo escrito vários artigos na revista The New Age e demais sítios artigos contra o sufrágio feminino. Em 1908 escreve The Legal Subjection of Men como uma resposta ao ensaio de 1869 de John Stuart Mill The Subjection of Women . Em 1913, escreve The Fraud of Feminism , onde detalha os efeitos adversos do Feminismo. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. Julho 1854 – 26. Novembro 1926
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“Certain Socialist writers are fond of describing the Social-Democratic State of the future as implying the "emancipation of the proletarian and the woman." As regards the latter point, however, if emancipation is taken to include domination, we have not to wait so long. The highest development of modern capitalism, as exemplified in the English-speaking countries, has placed man to all intents and purposes, legally under the heel of woman. So far as the relations of the sexes are concerned, it would be the task of Socialism to emancipate man from this position, if sex-equality be the goal aimed at. The first step on the road towards such equality would necessarily consist in the abolition of modern female privilege.”

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Chapter 12: Socialists and Feminists http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Legal_Subjection_of_Men#Socialists_And_Feminists
The Legal Subjection of Men (1908)

“There is a trick with which votaries of Feminism seek to prejudice the public mind against its critics, and that is the “fake” that any man who ventures to criticise the pretensions of Feminism, is actuated by motives of personal rancour against the female sex.”

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Introduction https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Fraud_of_Feminism/Introduction
The Fraud of Feminism (1913)

“Modern Feminism has two distinct sides to it: (1) an articulate political and economic side embracing demands for so-called rights; and (2) a sentimental side which insists in an accentuation of the privileges and immunities which have grown up, not articulately or as the result of definite demands, but as the consequence of sentimental pleading in particular cases. In this way, however, a public opinion became established, finding expression in a sex favouritism in the law and even still more in its administration, in favour of women as against men.”

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Chapter 1 Historical https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Fraud_of_Feminism/Chapter_1
The Fraud of Feminism (1913)

“From all we have said, it will now be evident, one would think, to the most prejudiced reader that modern English Law, following obsequiously a deluded or apathetic stage of public opinion, has solved the problem of the division of rights and duties between the sexes, by conceding to woman all rights, and imposing on man all duties.”

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11: A Sex Noblesse http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Legal_Subjection_of_Men#A_Sex_Noblesse
The Legal Subjection of Men (1908)

“I fear many working men will tell Mrs. Besant that the greatest hindrance to their political and social activity is the apathy of their wives.”

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To-Day magazine, October issue ‘No Misogyny But True Equality’ http://historyoffeminism.com/ernest-belfort-bax-no-misogyny-but-true-equality-1887-complete/
‘No Misogyny But True Equality’ (1887)

“I think she understates in favour of her own sex the inequality which she admits to exist between the male and female intellect.”

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To-Day magazine, October issue ‘No Misogyny But True Equality’ http://historyoffeminism.com/ernest-belfort-bax-no-misogyny-but-true-equality-1887-complete/
‘No Misogyny But True Equality’ (1887)

“Women in general are not interested in questions of principle as such, but at most only in so far as they affect particular personalities. They require the dramatic element to evoke their interest. With many men, on the contrary, though this element of course enhances interest, it is not the indispensable condition of interest.”

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To-Day magazine, October issue ‘No Misogyny But True Equality’ http://historyoffeminism.com/ernest-belfort-bax-no-misogyny-but-true-equality-1887-complete/
‘No Misogyny But True Equality’ (1887)