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I too think 'the more the merrier' with regard posts to the blogs. Nobody's saying everyone has to read every one. They give a good wide coverage of the issues that capitalism throws up with a topical slant. Something for everyone; i used to read the lot but now i pick and choose. But it's there for me, or anyone else who wants it, on a plate, cooked and selected for me, food for thought, or material for article or argument. Just beats me how they keep it up, day after day…
Excellent. Looks clean, un-cluttered. Simple, functional. Think the Publications page is weaker, 'tho. Could maybe benefit from some differentiation between the different journals? Sort of one long list at moment.
gnome wrote:norm_burns wrote:You'd probably be able to spell 'poduction', 'tho…But probably not be able to distinguish between 'were' and 'where'.
I hadn't noticed that. All shows how little we actually read when we read. Shouldn't it have been 'was', anyway?
imposs1904 wrote:A Party member from yesteryear – Steve Coleman – wrote his PhD on the early history of the SPGB back in the 80s. There was an epub of this doing the rounds a few months back but I don't have a download link immediately to hand.A zip file containing the PhD in a variety of formats should be available from the link below:-http://1drv.ms/1obtut3
Further down, they define 'individual' :-4. In the above principles:i. the term "individual" is to include all natural and legal persons as well as other bodies irrespective of nationality or residence, with the exclusion of the state and other public authorities;at the bottom, there's this :-APPENDIXMINIMUM RULES REGARDING THE RIGHT OF REPLY TOTHE PRESS, THE RADIO AND THE TELEVISIONAND TO OTHER PERIODICAL MEDIA1. Any natural and legal person, as well as other bodies, irrespective of nationality or residence, mentioned in a newspaper, a periodical, a radio or television broadcast, or in any other medium of a periodical nature, regarding whom or which facts have been made accessible to the public which he claims to be inaccurate, may exercise the right of reply in order to correct the facts concerning that person or body.2. At the request of the person concerned, the medium in question shall be obliged to make public the reply which the person concerned has sent in.3. By way of exception the national law may provide that the publication of the reply may be refused by the medium in the following cases:i. if the request for publication of the reply is not addressed to the medium within a reasonably short time;ii. if the length of the reply exceeds what is necessary to correct the information containing the facts claimed to be inaccurate;iii. if the reply is not limited to a correction of the facts challenged;iv if it constitutes a punishable offence;v. if it is considered contrary to the legally protected interests of a third party;vi. if the individual concerned cannot show the existence of a legitimate interest.4. Publication of the reply must be without undue delay and must be given, as far as possible, the same prominence as was given to the information containing the facts claimed to be inaccurate.5. In order to safeguard the effective exercise of the right to reply, the national law shall determine the person who shall represent any publication, publishing house, radio, television or other medium for the purpose of addressing a request to publish the reply. The person who shall be responsible for the publication of the reply shall be similarly determined and this person shall not be protected by any immunity whatsoever.6. The above rules shall apply to all media without any distinction. This does not exclude differences in the application of these rules to particular media such as radio and television to the extent that this is necessary or justified by their different nature.7. Any dispute as to the application of the above rules shall be brought before a tribunal which shall have power to order the immediate publication of the reply.(my bolds)So, the local British Law should allow a reply, if the above hasn't been superceded.
northern light wrote:In 1974, the common market adopted a" Resolution on the right of reply [res. (74) 26].You could always inform the Times, you wish to exercise that right !http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/media/doc/cm/res%281974%29026_EN.asp
I'm Windows 7 and Firefox. A post I was trying to make was twice rejected as spam. Late this morning, or early this afternoon. However, as my attempt to report this did appear, it looks like whatever the problem was, it didn't last.
I got exactly the same message at 02:08 last night.except, perhaps, from
you probably know this, but there's an 'it' for an 'in' in
'we have no say it what is produced…voluntarily not 'voluntary' in 'productive activity will be undertaken…'you've one full stop that i noticed. – none or all?Love it! prefer MarrianneFaithfull's working class hero, 'tho…it's got the 'angst'.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbbPAuAtSAA
Here's some reference to 'Le Bon'. From 'The Origin and Meaning of the Political Theory of Impossibilism' : S. Coleman.Once stripped of the scientific guise which Durkheim and Croce claimed need not be part of Marxist socialism, the British socialists were able to entertain new concepts into socialist thought which had been excluded hitherto because they conflicted with the scientific claim. By the late 1903 ethical, religious, gradual and even national socialism were gaining popularity in Britain. It is important to recognise, firstly, just how different these ideas were from the British Marxism of the 1880s, and secondly, how much their theoretical justification conflicted with the Marxist theory outlined in section I.It seems that towards the end of the nineteenth century there was a significant change in the general socialist perception of 'reality'. No one event or historic point can be pointed to and no single cause can be detected which accounts for the change, yet the change was profound and can be defined. Whereas in the 1880's social reality was seen to be a totality, accessible to intellectual comprehension and malleable by the force af rationality, by the mid 1890's socialists tended to externalise social reality: it was something to be worked within, for it was beyond the total manipulation of men or movements. This sense of having to come to terms with social alienation and the limitations of rationality is reflected in the literature of the period. In 1895 Gustave Le Bon's The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind was published. (21) In the book he attempted to describe the inherent irrationality of crowd or mass behaviour – "Amorphous crowds" he wrote, are motivated by "exaggerated sentiments", a "rage for unanimity", an "incapacity for moderation and delay", an "absence of judgement" and an "inability to reason". Mussolini was influenced greatly by Le Bon and claimed that fascism was a consequence of "anonymous and multitudinous masses". (22) The theory of "the amorphous masses" was to profoundly influence such fascist intellectuals as A.O. Olivetti (23) and Paolo Orano (24), but it was not the fascists who were the first to perceive the apparent irrationality of 'the masses'; similar ideas were being developed at the turn of the century by the possibilist wing of the socialist movement.As has been stated, pre-possibilist Marxists saw propaganda as an essentially educative process. The feeling that theoretical education was not enough led the possibilists to two conclusions: firstly, that the recipients of the education – the workers – lacked sufficient intelligence to grasp the message, and secondly, that practice rather than theory was required in order to awaken the masses of the need for socialism.It was frustration that led socialists to develop a theory based upon contempt for the class whose interests they claimed to serve. Ramsay MacDonald, whose belief that socialists should not talk about socialism to workers lest they disgust them was quoted in the last chapter, admitted to have been influenced considerably by Wilfred Trotter's 'Le Bonist' Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War. (25) Stuart Macintyre (26) has shown how this frustration with the ordinary working man was manifested in working-class literature of the first decades of this century by such characters as Henry Dubb (27) and Robert Tressell's Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. As a result of the change in socialist ideas about consciousness, the image of the typical worker changed from that of the potentially all-powerful world-changer of Marx's positivism to the "common, courageous, good-hearted, patient, proletarian fool" (28) of Henry Dubb.
2 or 10 for me. All subtly different. Someone has been playing with image-layers, i think. But 1 and 3 are good…, you change your mind every time you look.Go for contrast, clarity and flow! Get one picked! I've a picture here, where i've shrunk them so they're all side by side – easier to compare. Don't know how to up-load it 'tho…
