Bring back the pamphlet!
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Bring back the pamphlet!
There is no cause to idealise the system of socialist education which depended on pamphlets. Still, pamphlet-reading did something. It inserted serious study into the main flow of socialist activity. The pamphlets were in every activist’s bag or coat pocket, on every stall. If you wanted to know more than the minimum, your course of action was clear and ready to hand, and involved serious study, not one-in-six skimming. It gave a frame of more-or-less known references for debates.
TBH, I think there's more to be said for digital distribution of ebooks on stores such as iTunes and
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Expanding the distribution of the ePamphlet is a good idea.o Minimal costo Potential for wide distributionI've seen a good deal of interst for free eBooks and, therefore, I suspect ePamphlets will also go over well. My wife and I have a tiny used book website and we've started to add free eBooks. So far we've added two of Marx's pamphlets as free downloads/reads ('Wage, Labour & Capital' and 'Wages, Price & Profit') both of which are the most actively viewed on the humble, little site. Plan to add more as time permits.
We should be looking to convert pamphlets – both old and new – into epub and mobi formats and placing them on the Party website for free download.
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