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Short review of a biography of Kautsky that appeared in the June 1988 issue of the Socialist Standard:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/11/marxist-populariser-1988.html
Here's the links to an interesting three part series of articles by John Crump from the Socialist Standard in 1968, which, amongst other issues and individuals from that time, touches upon the SPGB's attitide towards Kautsky:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2014/04/members-in-great-war.htmlhttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-socialist-party-and-second_10.htmlhttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-socialist-party-and-second_11.htmlAnd here's an interesting article by Harry Waite from the 1939, which is an appraisal of Kautsky's political life, following his death the previous year:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2014/09/kautskys-work-for-socialism.html
Never saw it at the time. I clip myself around the head later on.Btw, ALB forwarded to the blog an interesing article from the October 1905 on the impossiblist movement in one corner of mainland Europe:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/the-socialist-movement-in-bulgaria-1905.html
A long historical by Peter E. Newell on Eleanor Marx and the Early Socialist Movement:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/11/tussy-eleanor-marx-and-early-socialist.htmlHat tip to Alan J. for originally putting this article on the net. Clip around the ear for Alan J. for not bringing it to a wider audience.
Just a wee curio from the October 1943 issue of The Western Socialist:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/10/glasgow-street-scene-1943.html
That was a lazy piece of journalism in the Guardian. The version I read – it might have since been corrected – suggested that the AWL had dissolved itself as an organisation. Absolute nonsense. They'd simply deregistered as a political party with the Electoral Commission. In reality, the AWL have always had a smattering of supporters/members in and around the Labour Party.
From the January 1955 issue of the Socialist Standard, a review of the first tv adapatation of George Orwell's 1984:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/10/1984unthinkable.htmlPeter Cushing as Winston Smith!
On the Eugene Debs connection, a couple years ago I visited the Eugene Debs museum in Terre Haute, Indiana – it is in fact Debs' own house that has been turned into a museum dedicated to him – and amongst Debs's personal collection of pamphlets on display under glass cases was a pamphet by Con Lehane. For SPGB anoraks, Lehane was a founder member of the SPGB, and the Party's first general secretary. I can't remember the title of Lehane's pamphlet but it was one published after he left the SPGB, and I'm sure it was on the subject of Ireland.
Have the issues already been forwarded onto this site?https://bataillesocialiste.wordpress.com/
Vin,I use this twitter account for posting links from the page:https://twitter.com/imposs1916It happens to be an old account that I had from years ago, which I never used, but simply reactivated once I started putting more time into the Socialist Standard Past and Present blog.It's in no way an 'official' page for the journal or the Party. I'll leave that wee endeavour for either the media department or the officialspgb twitter account.
Young Master Smeet wrote:You'll see why I put this under WSM in a minute.Anyway, the latest Private Eye has an aticle regarding the current malaise at Freedom Bookshop, which has ceased publishing its paper for some while now (leaving the Standard as basically last man standing, really, as the People died a good while ago). Apparently thee's a ghaaaastly Classwar crowd there causing trouble; but the articles of association for Freedom press say if it stops publishing they need to sell up and donate the proceeds to the cause (I hope none of our members will be willing for us to accept anarchist money).Anyway, the connection is is that someone late of our parish gets a name check, namely the Reverend Crowe, who gets bad mouthed as a hardline marxist (though at the time I recall he had become a Stirnerite Egoist), and his editorship is slated as the bginning of the slide into the end for Freedom.With regards to Toby Crowe getting the blame, I'm wondering if the person who penned the Private Eye piece cribbed part of their info from this series of blogposts?http://northernvoicesmag.blogspot.com/2015/02/who-killed-freedom-unauthorised-history.html
The second half of Bob Ambridge's Notes on Economic History series:May 1961 – Wealth of Nationshttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/10/notes-on-economic-history-7-1961.htmlJune 1961 – Adam Smith's theories of incomehttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/10/notes-on-economic-history-8-1961.htmlJuly 1961 – What is economic life?http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/10/notes-on-economic-history-9-1961.htmlAugust 1961 – The value of Labour-powerhttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/10/notes-on-economic-history-10-1961.htmlSeptember 1961 – The Theory of Populationhttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/10/notes-on-economic-history-11-1961.htmlOctober 1961 – Malthus on Povertyhttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/10/notes-on-economic-history-12-1961.html
I believe the articles were collected together and issued as a Common Ownership pamphlet in the 1990s sometime. Somebody will pop up to provide the detail, but I understand the Common Ownership pamphlets originated out of New Zealand. I can't remember who was behind them, but the name Chris Fackney springs to mind for some reason.
The latest undertaking on the blog is Robert Ambridge's 1960/61 12 part series entitled, 'Notes on Economic History'. The majority are already up on the blog, and they should all be up some time early next week. Here's the obligatory links:November 1960 – Economics before mercantilismhttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/10/notes-on-economic-history-1-1960.htmlDecember 1960 – The Mercantile Systemhttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/10/notes-on-economic-history-2-1960.htmlJanuary 1961 – The rise of the merchantshttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/10/notes-on-economic-history-3-1961.htmlFebruary 1961 – Before the physiocratshttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/10/notes-on-economic-history-4-1961.htmlMarch 1961 – The Physiocratshttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/10/notes-on-economic-history-5-1961.htmlApril 1961 – The Physiocratic Schoolhttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/10/notes-on-economic-history-6-1961.html
