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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.
