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One of those Socialist Standard articles/reviews that you’re surprised wasn’t scanned in years ago.

From the Socialist Standard archives, a 1970 review of Noam Chomsky’s ‘American Power and the New Mandarins’:

https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2019/11/uncle-sam-is-wicked-1970.html

 

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It’s been a while since I did one of these.

Just a wee update about the blog. The following is a list of the newly completed Socialist Standards on the blog . . . since the last post on the thread on a similar theme.

April 1936

January 1943
February 1943
March 1943
April 1943
May 1943
October 1947

December 1956
February 1959

November 1962
November 1969
December 1969

January 1970
December 1970
April 1971
July 1973
January 1978

January 1982
May 1982
January 1984
February 1985
July 1985
December 1989

April 1990
October 1994
January 1995
January 1996
February 1996
March 1996
August 1996

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I don’t usually links to individual articles/pieces these days but I liked Eric Boden’s take down of the ghastly Webbs and their notorious two volume book from this April 1936 issue of the Socialist Standard. Just scanned in for your perusal.

I especially liked Boden’s final paragraph:

“Contemporary conditions in Russia have given a curious twist to the ideas of Marx and Engels, just as conditions in Germany in the first half of the 19th century gave a similar twist to revolutionary ideas from France. The stability of the existing regime in Russia cannot be eternal, and it behoves workers to beware of accepting the assurances of “intellectuals,” like the Webbs, concerning Russia or Socialism. They are authorities on neither.”

Sticking the boot into Fabians and the Soviet Union in one review. Nice!

https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2019/11/soviet-capitalism-1936.html

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Found it. Knew I’d seen it somewhere.

https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2019/09/our-first-prospective-candidate-for.html

Useful comment too.

Turns out the SPGB would have contested Battersea North in 1929:

Link: Correspondence: Should we contest elections? (1931)

 

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Someone stepped up and supplied me with the requested front cover, so you can all rest easy now.  😉

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Hi Brian,

Fair play with the efforts in regularly doing the stall. More power to your elbow and all that, but such activity doesn’t necessarily have to tie in with electoral activity.

 

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“monologue of the deaf”

Hey, I bet that sounded better in your head.  😛

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What did I say about a ‘dialogue of the deaf’?  😉

I know the opposing arguments to my position on elections; I just don’t happen to agree with them.

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I really wish the SPGB wouldn’t contest elections at the present time.

The SPGB wasn’t able to contest its first parliamentary election until 1945, but it didn’t stop it being incredibly active in the preceding years. Contesting an election at this moment in time is a poor substitute for actual activity.

I know I’m a minority voice on this issue, so there’s no need to reply to my post to try and talk me round. I know it’s just a dialogue of the deaf at this point.  😉

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Forgive me dear forum moderator, it has been nearly 45 days since my last ‘info dump’. (Yep, I know that’s the wrong terminology.)

Just a wee update about the blog. The following is a list of the newly completed Socialist Standards on the blog . . .  since the last post on the thread on a similar theme.

Excuse me for a bit of cut and paste to explain the background to this:

Every Standard since September 1904 is featured in some shape or form on the blog but, gradually, I’m getting around to scanning in whole issues.

If you want to check out any of the particular Standards listed, just scroll down the right hand side of the blog and it will be listed by its month and year.

The completed Standards only go up to 1997 because, from 1998 to the present day, all the Standards were/are automatically added to the SPGB website:

Finished Socialist Standards (since the last time)

January 1913

February 1923
April 1923
September 1923
May 1929

June 1936

March 1942
April 1946

April 1964
September 1967

April 1970
August 1970
November 1970
January 1973
November 1973
February 1975
December 1975
January 1976

July 1980
August 1980
August 1981
January 1985
April 1986

April 1991
March 1997

 

[imposs1904]

Wow, it’s been awhile.

Just a wee update about the blog. The following is a list of the completed Socialist Standards on the blog. Every Standard since September 1904 is featured in some shape or form on the blog but, gradually, I’m getting around to scanning in whole issues.

If you want to check out any of the particular Standards listed, just scroll down the right hand side of the blog and it will be listed by its month and year.

The completed Standards only go up to 1997 because, from 1998 to the present day, all the Standards were/are automatically added to the SPGB website:

Finished Socialist Standards

October 1904

September 1918

July 1922
January 1923
April 1923
January 1924
March 1924
June 1926
July 1927
January 1929
February 1929
March 1929
April 1929 (tbd)

March 1930
May 1930
January 1931
August 1931
September 1931
September 1932
August 1934
February 1937
November 1937
April 1938

January 1940 (tbd)
July 1941
June 1947
July 1947
August 1947

May 1950
March 1952
November 1958
December 1958
March 1959
April 1959
May 1959
June 1959

March 1960
July 1961
September 1961
May 1963
February 1964
March 1964
January 1965
January 1967
February 1967
April 1967
August 1967
January 1968
February 1968
March 1968
April 1968
May 1968
June 1968
July 1968
August 1968
September 1968
October 1968
November 1968
December 1968
January 1969
February 1969
March 1969
April 1969
May 1969
June 1969
July 1969
August 1969
September 1969
October 1969

July 1970
March 1971
April 1972
August 1972
January 1974
April 1974 (tbd – see correction)
December 1974
January 1975
June 1978
January 1979
February 1979
June 1979

February 1980
March 1980
April 1980
May 1980
September 1980 (tbd – see correction)
October 1980
November 1980
December 1980
July 1981
March 1982
April 1982 (tbd – see correction)
November 1983
April 1984
July 1984
August 1985
January 1986
February 1986
March 1986
January 1987
July 1987
August 1987
December 1987
January 1988
April 1988
August 1988
December 1988
October 1989
November 1989

January 1990
February 1990
March 1990
April 1992
July 1992
November 1992
December 1992
January 1993
May 1993
April 1997

 

 

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[imposs1904]

Someone posted it on Twitter.

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Just another example of anti-semitism being alive and well on the ‘left’.

Why give oxygen to this shite?

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A cheap excuse for me to link to more Steve Coleman’s articles than you can shake a stick at:

Link: Steve Coleman articles

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Sorry to read about Frank’s passing. He was a good bloke, always happy to chat and discuss ideas.

If you didn’t know, he was the SPGB’s parliamentary candidate in Clapham at the 1970 General Election.

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