Editing Point Counter Point (section)

== Real-world British fascists ==

Comparisons have been made between the character Everard Webley with his Brotherhood of British Freemen and [[Oswald Mosley]] with the [[British Union of Fascists]]. However, when Huxley wrote ''Point Counter Point'', Mosley was still a prominent member of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] and would remain so until 1931. The BUF was not founded until 1932. A number of other fascist groups preceded Mosley, the most prominent being the [[British Fascists]], and possibly one of those may have been Huxley's inspiration. In the 1996 reprint of ''Point Counter Point'', Mosley's son [[Nicholas Mosley|Nicholas]] discusses the connection in a new introduction to the novel.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Huxley |first1=Aldous |title=Point Counter Point |date=1996 |publisher=Dalkey Archive Press |location=Garden City, New York |page=v-ix}}</ref> David Bradshaw has argued that the most likely source for Webley is [[John Hargrave]], the founder of The Kindred of the [[Kibbo Kift]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Bradshaw |first=David |title=Huxley's 'Tinpot Mussolini' and the KKK's 'White Fox': A New Source for Everard Webley and the Brotherhood of British Freemen in 'Point Counter Point' |journal=Aldous Huxley Annual |year=2002 |volume=2 |pages=146–59}}</ref>