Title: A socialist's view of a Victorian-era religious reformer
Review: Hattersley, author of "Choose freedom: the future for democratic socialism" smears this colossus of Victorian reform, John Wesley, from the standpoint of a 21st century secularist. This is just more sanctimonious blather disguised as impartial scholarship that belittles the great men of a much harder time than ours. Britain's best thinkers, like Wesley, used to help make the world a better place in which to live, whereas the present-day elites' shallow, smirking arrogance perpetrates only self-reinforcing misery for those who fall prey to their humbug. No surprise that other readers find the subject, as (mis-)represented here, difficult to like. By focusing on what is least meaningful about Wesley (his women), Hattersley trivializes a subject that deserved genuine sopistication, not cheap sophistry.
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