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The Marxist Outsider: T.A. Jackson as Autobiographer and Critic

In his magisterial history of working-class autodidacticism in Britain, Jonathan Rose describes the late T.A. Jackson as “the most brilliant proletarian intellectual to come out of the British Communist Party.” It is a judgement with which it is very hard to disagree. Born into an impoverished family in London and deprived of all but the most rudimentary formal education, Jackson had a voracious hunger for knowledge and wrote groundbreaking and still eminently readable books on history, philosophy, politics and literature. He also made a deep impression on the thousands of people who turned out to hear his lectures and speeches. It seems unlikely that anyone else in Britain did as much to inspire working-class recruits to the Communist Party to immerse themselves in the life of the mind. Moreover, Rose is by no means the only recent scholar to pay tribute to him. As early as 1984, in his study of communist philosophy in Britain, Jonathan Rée singled him out as the most distinguished example of what he called the “proletarian philosophers.” He has also featured prominently in recent studies by Helena Sheehan, Erin McLaughlinJenkins, Hanna Behrend and others. More than 60 years after his