01056nam a22001097a 4500008004100000100002000041245011400061260003800175300003000213520066700243773003600910210712b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aGuy, Stéphane  aNegotiating an “economic revolution”: History, collectivism, and liberalism in William Clarke’s thought  aJournal of The History of Ideas    a81(4), Oct, 2020: 621-642  aLike a number of contemporary progressive thinkers, William Clarke (1852–1901) was a socialist with liberal leanings. Believing in the benefits of collective ownership and democratic reform, he joined the Fabian Society in 1886 before resigning from it in 1897. This article seeks to account for Clarke’s intellectual development from socialism to liberalism by focusing on the implications of his political writings. It argues that this estrangement partly resulted from the incompatibility between the principle of historic necessity underlying his critique of private ownership and his ongoing commitment to democracy and pragmatic reform. – Reproduced   aJournal of The History of Ideas