Michael Harrington

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  • #82458
    admice
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    sorry if it's uncool to post, but gotta ask Any reviews of his writings? You have archives going back seemingly to 6000 BCE.

    #98303
    ALB
    Keymaster

    This should probably be in the "General Discussion" as it might get lost here. As to Harrington, I'm sure we will have reviewed his books such ass The Other America and The Accidental Century but they've not be converted into electronic form to go on our Socialist Standard archives section here. The second, by the way, is included in one of our recommended reading lists, here:http://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/better-read-than-red.htmlThere was an article in the July 1977 Socialist Standard critical of the reformist position he put in a debate that year with an open defender of capitalism. It exists somewhere in cyberspace but I'm still trying to track it down.

    #98304
    jondwhite
    Participant

    Good question, there were seemingly similar thinkers in the Labour Party going back decades. I'm thinking particularly in the 1960s and 1970s who wrote about the term. There may be something on them, but the full archive is not uploaded yet.

    #98305
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    Found it for you, comrade,  but cannot access it .http://invereskstreet.blogspot.com/2006/07/pages-from-party-press.htmlI can't find it on his other blog  http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/

    #98306
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    Did come across this quote by Harrington" If there is a genuine continuing theme in Conservative history it is the defence of authority. In the Nineteenth Century, Conservatives stood for truncheons, gunboats, and the Church of England. The contemporary Conservative believes in truncheons and the authority of management in business.’ – Michael Harrington "

    #98307
    imposs1904
    Participant

    I'm trying to hunt it down.Bear with me.

    #98308
    admice
    Participant

    Thanks. I'm reading parts of "Socialism" 1973 I think. You guys r dolls. Hey sounds almost like the title of a musical Anyway thanks for your hunting and all your other help.

    #98309
    imposs1904
    Participant

    OK, I found the Harrington article via a zip file I downloaded from my old MySpace Socialist Standard page:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-better-kind-of-capitalism.htmlI'm sure it will go on the Party website in the fullness of time.

    #98310
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    What other non-online treasures are you hoarding, Darren?Ve haf vays of making you talk!

    #98311
    imposs1904
    Participant

    But it was online. MySpace let me do.I'm going through the old files and finding a few other articles that were on the myspace blog but were lost when mypace decided to delete everyone's blogs. They'll be posted on the blog, and forwarded onto the Internet Committee for inclusion in the Standard archive.I've been busy last few weeks with getting old Standard articles online. See for yourself on the blog:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/

    #98312
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    Sorry, if i came across as  trying to give you a guilt trip. Not intended  

    #98313
    ALB
    Keymaster
    imposs1904 wrote:
    OK, I found the Harrington article via a zip file I downloaded from my old MySpace Socialist Standard page:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-better-kind-of-capitalism.htmlI'm sure it will go on the Party website in the fullness of time.

    Thanks. Incidentally, and with reference to the rather oddly titled thread on "women", the author of this article later went on, under her real name of Alison Assiter to become a leading feminist theorist:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Assiter

    #98314
    Anonymous
    Inactive
    imposs1904 wrote:
    OK, I found the Harrington article via a zip file I downloaded from my old MySpace Socialist Standard page:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-better-kind-of-capitalism.htmlI'm sure it will go on the Party website in the fullness of time.

    And as if by magic the article appeared …http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/1970s/1977/no-875-july-1977/better-kind-capitalismThanks to imposs1904

    #98315
    admice
    Participant

    WooHoo time is full. Thanks guys. I really should make the conservatives do all this work.

    #98316
    J Surman
    Participant
    imposs1904 wrote:
    I've been busy last few weeks with getting old Standard articles online. See for yourself on the blog:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/

    And much appreciated too. I've been tucking in. Thanks, Janet

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