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of "Working Class Industrial Organisation" culminating
in Aldred's recently founded Industrial Union of Direct
Action; political and educational struggle; bourgeois culture;
and sexual relationships as they pertained to the class
war. (Aldred, like Har Dayal, believed in free love.) In general,
Aldred's intellectual link with what Caldwell terms
the "early Victorian radicals" who represented the "Iiberalradical
tradition" of republicanism prior to the "socialist
turn within Secularism" in England also sounds quite
similar to Har Dayal's definition of radicalism in prewar
San Francisco.6.'
Har Dayal's book was never realized, and within a few
years he had abandoned the revolutionary movement. His
comrades viewed his shocking political recantation and
avowal of British loyalism at the war's end (partially explainable,
though not excusable, by the disillusionment evinced
in his memoir/expose .Forty -Four Months in Germany and
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