of 1839. He was a partisan of moderate tactics (“moral force”). After imprisonment (1839–40), Lovett supported a number of attempts by bourgeois radicals to bring the Chartist movement under bourgeois direction. To all intents and purposes, he withdrew from Chartism in the late 1840’s....
they came to seek 'social democracy'. A clash between two such divergent viewpoints was inevitable and it came in the form of a split between 'moral force' and 'physical force' Chartism.;In contrast to Cole's portrayal, the examination that follows posits that Lovett was in fact a member...
Lovett’s moderation made it difficult for him to work with the more militant Chartist leader Feargus O’Connor; thus his role in Chartism was limited, although in 1839 he was secretary of a Chartist nationalconvention. Arrested after Chartist disturbances inBirminghamwhile the convention was in ...