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  • #98914
    robbo203
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    imposs1904 wrote:
    Excellent article by Robert Barltrop from 1971:Link The Permissive Society

     Yes that is indeed an excellent article, The point that Barltrop makes about eras being defined by the perceptions of the ruling class (or as Marx would have itm the ruling ideas are those of the ruling class) is true enough but, as he also suggests, it is not uninfluenced by the experiences of the working class.  For instance, in the wake of the Great Depression there was a tendency to tone down displays of conspicuous consumption because it was seen to be somewhat provocative and unseemly in the face of mass hardship.  Its a two-way process of adjustment this ever shifting relationship between the capitalists and the workers

    #98915
    imposs1904
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    Is there a proof reader in the house?Link: Socialism – One World

    #98916
    imposs1904
    Participant

    Anybody read Michael Young's 1958 satire, The Rise of the Meritocracy? I'm wondering if it is worth reading. This review from the Socialist Standard in 1959 piqued my interest: Link: The Rise of the Meritocracy

    #98917
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    #98918
    imposs1904
    Participant
    #98919
    imposs1904
    Participant

    As it's election week, a new addition to the blog:Link: SPGB's 1910 General Election ManifestoOn the internet for the first time.

    #98920
    jondwhite
    Participant
    imposs1904 wrote:
    As it's election week, a new addition to the blog:Link: SPGB's 1910 General Election ManifestoOn the internet for the first time.

    Makes for interesting comparison with thishttps://libcom.org/library/general-election-our-manifesto-workers

    #98921
    imposs1904
    Participant

    Good that they are both now up from 1910. I'll look through some other old Standards to see if there are other election statements that have yet to be put on the net.

    #98922
    jondwhite
    Participant
    imposs1904 wrote:
    Good that they are both now up from 1910. I'll look through some other old Standards to see if there are other election statements that have yet to be put on the net.

    Do you have a full paper archive or access to HO in London? For a moment, I thought they were the same address, but turns out there were two general elections around that time.

    #98923
    ALB
    Keymaster

    We published lots of old general election statements on the SOYMB blog in the run-up to the 2015 General Election. Check there first before you duplicate work already done. Some of them were never published in the Standard anyway.I'm sure Alan will be able to help the two of you track them down.

    #98924
    imposs1904
    Participant

    An SPGB comrade was kind enough to send me some scans of 1968 Socialist Standard front covers, so that's prompted a slew of 1968 Socialist Standard articles and reviews posted on the internet for the first time. Fill your boots:Link: 1968 to me means Paris, Czechoslovakia and Dunfermline winning the Scottish Cup.

    #98925
    imposs1904
    Participant

    Excellent Socialist Standard article from 1929 by W. T. HopleyLINK: The Uses of Hate

    #98926
    imposs1904
    Participant

    SPGB poetry from 1911:Link – Take Up The Sword

    #98927
    imposs1904
    Participant

    My facebook timeline is telling me that today is the 77th anniversary of the assassination of Trotsky. On cue, here's an article from the September 1940 issue of the Socialist Standard on said event, and an assessment of Trotsky's political life:Link: The Death of Trotsky

    #98928
    J P Morgan
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    Can you recommend an article, or provide a link, that gives the Marxian explanation of the bank rate. I'd be obliged.

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