Kenneth Kenafick Explained

Kenneth Kenafick
Other Names:James Kennedy, Leo Conon (pen names)
Birth Date:11 April 1904
Birth Place:Norseman, Western Australia
Death Place:Loxton, South Australia
Alma Mater:University of Western Australia, Melbourne Teachers' College
Occupation:Poet, writer, translator, activist
Organization:No Conscription Campaign (secretary), and
League for Freedom (secretary)
Notable Works:Marxism, Freedom and the State (English translation, 1950)

Kenneth Joseph Kenafick (11 April 1904 – 26 January 1982), also known by the pen names James Kennedy and Leo Conon, was an Australian poet, writer, translator and anti-conscription campaigner.

He was the secretary of the No Conscription Campaign and the organisation's successor, League for Freedom. He was the editor of the Anti-Militarist News and Review journal.

Early life and education

Kenafick was born in 1904 at Norseman in Western Australia (graduating in 1932),[1] and studied at the University of Western Australia and Melbourne Teachers' College.

Career

After his education, Kenafick worked as a teacher in high schools throughout Victoria. Three volumes of his poetry, written under the pseudonym James Kennedy, were published by Thomas Lothian from 1935 to 1939.[2] In 1957, he published an autobiography under the pen name Leo Conon.

He was a member of the Victorian Teachers' Union and the Australian Labor Party, although he broke away from the party in support of Maurice Blackburn in 1942, becoming secretary of the No Conscription Campaign from 1943 to 1946. He was known for his anarcho-socialism[3] and as a pacifist. His 1948 work, Michael Bakunin and Karl Marx, is considered a good account of the Marx/Bakunin debate.[4] He was Secretary of the No Conscription Campaign and the organization's successor, the League for Freedom, for many years. After the organisation was renamed the League for Freedom and World Friendship, Kenafick became the editor of the journal it published in Melbourne: Anti-Militarist News and Review.[5]

In 1950, he edited and translated an anthology of Mikhail Bakunin's work entitled Marxism, Freedom and the State, published by Freedom Press in London, UK, which is widely cited.[6] [7] [8] [9]

Personal life and death

Kenafick retired in 1968 and moved with his wife to Myrla near Wunkar in South Australia. He died in Loxton in 1982.

Selected publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kenneth Joseph Kenafick . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170928010107/https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A89224 . 28 Sep 2017 . AustLit.
  2. Web site: Kenafick Collection . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131212215541/http://www.nla.gov.au/selected-library-collections/kenafick-collection . 12 Dec 2013 . National Library of Australia.
  3. Hodges, Donald Clark. “Bakunin’s Controversy with Marx: An Analysis of the Tensions within Modern Socialism.” The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 19, no. 3, 1960, pp. 259–74. JSTOR, . Accessed 9 Mar. 2023.
  4. Leach . Darcy K. . The Iron Law of What Again? Conceptualizing Oligarchy across Organizational Forms . Sociological Theory . September 2005 . 23 . 3 . 312–337 . 10.1111/j.0735-2751.2005.00256.x . 4148876 . 145166500 . 11 March 2023.
  5. Web site: www.bibliopolis.com . ANTI-MILITARIST NEWS AND REVIEW on Bibliomania . 2023-03-11 . Bibliomania . en-US.
  6. Marxism, Freedom and the State — A Review, Freedom (magazine)
  7. June 1951 . Marxism, Freedom and the State. By Michael Bakunin. Translated by K. J. Kenafick. (London: Freedom Press. 1950. Pp. 63. 5s.) . American Political Science Review . en . 45 . 2 . 611 . 10.1017/S0003055400294136 . 1537-5943.
  8. Hodges, Donald Clark. “The Rise and Fall of Militant Trade Unionism.” The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 20, no. 5, 1961, pp. 483–96. JSTOR, . Accessed 9 Mar. 2023.
  9. Kurzman . Charles . Owens . Lynn . The sociology of intellectuals . Annual Review of Sociology . 2002 . 28 . 1 . 63–90 . 10.1146/annurev.soc.28.110601.140745 .
  10. Book: Kennedy, James . Poems lyrical and descriptive . 1936 . Lothian . Melbourne.

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