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Down the years, Bax is someone who has been pretty much written out of the history of the nineteenth century British Socialist Movement.

Whilst Hyndman is always on hand to take on the role of the Victorian villain for the failure of the Marxist Left in Britain for not fully integrating into the wider Labour Movement, and William Morris gets rediscovered every generation via a new biography and/or a new exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Bax, who was a comparable heavyweight figure in the Social Democratic Federation in the 1880s and was a major player - alongside Morris, Aveling and Eleanor Marx - in the Socialist League split from the SDF in 1885, if he is known at all, is best known these days for his virulent anti-feminism in the latter years of his political life, and his capitulation to British chauvinism at the outbreak of the First World War.

The Historical Place of the SPGB

1854 – 1925

Further Reading on Ernest Belfort Bax:

First Part

DOWNLOAD LINK: Belfort Bax and the "Ethics of Socialism"
FILE NAME: 02 Belfort Bax and the Ethics of Socialism Part 1.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~59.47 megabytes
LENGTH:1:04:33

Second Part

DOWNLOAD LINK: Belfort Bax and the "Ethics of Socialism"
FILE NAME: 01 Belfort Bax and the Ethics of Socialism part 2.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~41.88 megabytes
LENGTH: 56:01

1854 - 1938

Further Reading on Karl Kautsky:

Karl Kautsky and the Socialist Critique of Religion

Further Reading on William Morris:

1828-1888

Further Reading on Dietzgen:

Joseph Dietzgen and Dialectical Thought

Debates

A debate between David Senior, (Conservative Party)
             and Clifford Slapper, (SPGB),
held on 26/07/1995 at Conway Hall.

Debate

 DOWNLOAD LINK: 
 Capitalism
or Socialism part 1

 FILE NAME: Debate -
Capitalism or Socialism 26-07-1995 pt.1.mp3

 DOWNLOAD LINK:  Capitalism or Socialism part 2

 FILE NAME: Debate - Capitalism or
Socialism 26-07-1995 pt.2.mp3

A debate between Steve Coleman and Labour Party member 
Laurence Spigel, recorded on 4th April 1985 at The Prince Albert, 
Islington.

Is a Third World War Inevitable ?

It's in two parts - the first is Steve Coleman's talk, 
and the 2nd contains the discussion plus a 3 minute interview
 the next day on local radio. It's been converted from tape 
cassette, so the sound quality isn't ideal but it's perfectly
listenable.

DOWNLOAD LINK: Is a 3rd world war inevitable part1?
FILE NAME Is a 3rd World War Inevitable' - Steve Coleman 31-07-1980 pt.1.MP3
DOWNLOAD LINK :Is a 3rd World War Inevitable part 2
FILE NAME 'Is a 3rd World War Inevitable' - Steve Coleman 31-07-1980 pt.2.MP3

Edgar Hardcastle

1900-1995

Further Reading on Hardy :

Hardy Talks

The son of a founding member of the SPGB, Hardy joined the party in 1922. He studied at the LSE and did considerable work on political economy, in particular a Marxist critique of Keynes and other work on political economy.

". . . son of a founder member, he went to prison as a socialist conscientious objector in the First World War, formally joining the Party in 1922. After studying at the London School of Economics under Professor Edwin Cannan he worked all his life as a researcher in the trade union movement, first for the Agriculture Workers Union, then for a short while for the international trade union movement in Brussels, then till his retirement for the Post Office workers' union where he was chief adviser to a succession of UPW General Secretaries."

He served on the Editorial Committee of the Socialist Standard for over forty years, and represented the SPGB on many occasions in debate. His pen name, when writing articles for the Standard, was 'H', and when he spoke for the Party he was listed as 'Hardy' in the meetings pages of the Standard.

The use of 'H' as a pen name dates from time in the SPGB's publishing history when the overwhelming majority of Party writers would sign their articles with either their initials or with a pseudonym. I can only guess that he used the Party name of 'Hardy' when speaking for the SPGB because of work commitments.

To give some sense of the span of his political life, speaking as a representative of the SPGB, he debated an Economic League speaker in 1927; a New Party speaker in 1931; Dr Edward Conze (speaking on behalf of the Labour Party) in 1937; Sir Keith Joseph in 1975; Arthur Seldon in 1981; Paul Hirst in 1983; and Kelvin Hopkins in 1988. (That's from an incomplete wiki list here.)

E. Hardy on Crises And Depressions

First Part

DOWNLOAD LINK: Crises and Depressions (Part 1)
FILE NAME: 27 Crises And Depressions.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~58.16 MB megabytes
LENGTH: 1:03:05

Second Part

DOWNLOAD LINK: Crises and Depressions (Part 2)
FILE NAME: 28 Crises And Depressions - Part Two.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~50.87 MB megabytes
LENGTH: 55:11

E. Hardy's lecture on the Labour Theory of Value

E. Hardy's lecture on Rent, Interest and Profit

The third economics lecture from Edgar Hardcastle:

First Part

DOWNLOAD LINK: Rent, Interest and Profit (Part 1)
FILE NAME: 04 Rent, Interest And Profit.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~57.81 MB megabytes
LENGTH: 1:02:43

Second Part

DOWNLOAD LINK: Rent, Interest and Profit (Part 2)
FILE NAME: 05 Rent, Interest And Profit.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~38.25 MB megabytes
LENGTH: 41:29

E. Hardy's lecture on Productivity

The fourth economics lecture from Edgar Hardcastle:

First Part

DOWNLOAD LINK: Productivity (Part 1)
FILE NAME: 43 Productivity.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~56.15 MB megabytes
LENGTH: 1:00:55

Second Part

DOWNLOAD LINK: Productivity (Part 2)
FILE NAME: Productivity - Part Two.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~15.28 MB megabytes
LENGTH: 16:39

E. Hardy's lecture on Monetarism

The final lecture from Edgar Hardcastle's series of talks on economics:

First Part

DOWNLOAD LINK: Monetarism (Part 1)
FILE NAME: 02 Monetarism.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~58.36 MB megabytes
LENGTH: 1:03:21

Second Part

DOWNLOAD LINK: Monetarism (Part 2)
FILE NAME: 03 Monetarism - Part Two.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~ 48.76 MB megabytes
LENGTH: 52:54