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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
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.
January 1943
February 1943
March 1943
April 1943
May 1943
October 1947November 1962
November 1969
December 1969January 1970
December 1970
April 1971
July 1973
January 1978January 1982
May 1982
January 1984
February 1985
July 1985
December 1989April 1990
October 1994
January 1995
January 1996
February 1996
March 1996
August 1996I 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
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)
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.
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.
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. 😉
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 1929June 1936
March 1942
April 1946April 1964
September 1967April 1970
August 1970
November 1970
January 1973
November 1973
February 1975
December 1975
January 1976July 1980
August 1980
August 1981
January 1985
April 1986April 1991
March 1997
