Michael Harrington

[imposs1904]

Whilst digging out the Harrington article I found the following old Socialist Standard articles which will be going on the Party website in the fullness of time: October 1990 Morris and Revolutionhttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/morris-and-revolution.htmlJune 1981 A World Without Money – 5 Questionshttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-world-without-money-5-questions.htmlDecember 1987 Not the milleniumhttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/not-millenium.htmlFebruary 1994 Blobby culturehttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/blobby-culture.htmlMarch 1994 Herlandhttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/herland.html cheers.  

[admice]

O, like I didnt already have too much to read. Sigh. And thanks for this http://www.alisonassiter.com/revisiting-universalism/ Can anyone synthesize her for me assuming I've had basic philosophy?She is one smart, cool, cookie.

[admice]

Why is it oddly titled?

[imposs1904]

imposs1904 wrote:

Whilst digging out the Harrington article I found the following old Socialist Standard articles which will be going on the Party website in the fullness of time: October 1990 Morris and Revolutionhttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/morris-and-revolution.htmlJune 1981 A World Without Money – 5 Questionshttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-world-without-money-5-questions.htmlDecember 1987 Not the milleniumhttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/not-millenium.htmlFebruary 1994 Blobby culturehttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/blobby-culture.htmlMarch 1994 Herlandhttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/herland.html cheers.  

 The Herland article linked to above met with a bit of opposition within the SPGB and the pages of the Socialist Standard itself.The following link is to a letter – and editors reply –  that appeared in the July 1994 issue of the Socialist Standard:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/letter-herland.html

[ALB]

admice wrote:

And thanks for this http://www.alisonassiter.com/revisiting-universalism/Can anyone synthesize her for me assuming I've had basic philosophy?She is one smart, cool, cookie.

I think her book is basically a criticism of the so-called "post-modernists" who teach that there is no such things as universally valid values or even universally valid scientific theories, i.e they are relativists who say "anything goes" or as one wit has put it "cannibalism is a matter of taste".Assister is defending the modernist tradition inherited from the 18th Enlightenment that there are such "universals" that are valid for all humans. Marx was in this tradition and so basically are we.The Socialist Standard reviewed her book in 2003. Although she is no longer a member her book does contain a relatively favourable reference to us (quoted in the review):http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2000s/2003/no-1192-december-2003/book-reviews

[ALB]

Imposs1904 has just posted on his Socialist Standard Past and Present blog the review we did in 1964 of Harrington's book The Other America when it was first published in Britain:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/michael-harringtons-other-america.html

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