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Book Reviews: 'An English Affair' & 'The History of Democracy'

Britain fifty years ago

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines. Harper Press, 2013. £20

It is 50 years since what was termed the ‘Profumo Affair’ rocked the Establishment and the ruling class in Britain, but particularly in England and London. Davenport-Hines asserts that it was ‘a nation on the brink of a social revolution.’ It was not that, but there was considerable change in the mores and life-styles of many workers compared to the pre-war period and for many years after that war.

Socialism and Democracy

What is democracy? Why should it be considered a good thing? Why should an individual accept a democratically-arrived-at decision with which they disagree? These are the questions Keith Graham sets out to answer in the first, more philosophical, part of his book (The Battle of Democracy, Wheatsheaf Books, £8.95)

Marxism and Democracy

Book review - Marxism and Democracy

A useful addition to Socialist Literature

Democracy And The Silicon Chip

Karl Marx once said that the hand mill gives you feudalism and the steam mill gives you capitalism. Had he lived for another hundred years, he might have added with a wry smile that the computer gives you Socialism. The ways in which human society can be organised, is organised and ought to be organised depend on the techniques and resources which can be used in its running. The idea of a society where no one goes hungry and all co-operate to control the conditions of their existence is no more than a pipe dream unless there is the wherewithal to translate idea into reality.

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