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EM,
Could you also email your longer reply? I’m not one for engaging in online debates – I’m a throwback to socialists arguing half-drunk in pubs – but I’ve always been interested in the minimum/maximum debate.
In fact, if I remember correctly, when I resigned from the SPGB in the mid-nineties – I rejoined after a couple of years – I cited the minimum/maximum issue in my resignation letter.
My email address is invereskstreetingrate@yahoo.co.uk
Thanks in advance,
D.
For those interested in that sort of thing, just a heads up that the entire issue of the July 1941 Socialist Standard is now online:
LINK: July 1941 Socialist Standard
Content includes:
– War Overtakes Russia (Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union, and its ramifications for the war.)
– What the Labour Party Represents
– Gentlemen All (Political and military hypocrisy)
– The British Communist Party does somersaults.
– The rich in wartime.
– Who Will Do the Dirty Work Under Socialism?
I’m sure there’s something for everyone.
For those interested in that sort of thing, just a heads up that the entire issue of the January 1923 Socialist Standard is now online:
LINK: January 1923 Socialist Standard
Content includes:
– Science and the Working Class.
– The Capital Sentence. (political hypocrisy in the aftermath of WW1.)
– Where does the Labour Party stand?
– Sex. (Yep, that’s the title of the article)
– What is Capital?
– Vote Swapping. (Labour Party hypocrisy)
– Book Review: “From Crow-Scaring to Westminster” (Biography of a Labour Leader.)
– Wells at the World’s End. (Sticking the boot into H. G. Wells.)
– Words and Deeds (Sticking the boot into the CPGB.)
– Murder! (Assassinations and political hypocrisy.)
– Is It Work We Want?
I’m sure there’s something for everyone.
“The solution is simple. Join the socialist party of Great Britain and transfer all the archives and websites to the SPGB. It should have been done 12 years ago”
No thanks.
For those interested in that sort of thing, just a heads up that the entire issue of the November 1958 Socialist Standard is now online:
Content includes:
– Socialism, One World, One People by Ted Wilmott
– The Tory Pension Plan
– The Labour Party and Public Schools
– Terrorism and British Imperialism in Cyprus
– Advertising by Stealth by Robert Barltrop
– SPGB response to the recent ‘race riots’ in Nottingham and London
– Book Review: A History of Courting
– News from Wales
– SPGBer buys old safe for 30 shillings, and it turns out there is $250,000 of jewelry inside the safe. (true story)
– The Labour Party Conference
– Film Review: “The Defiant Ones” (Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier)
– A Propaganda Tour In America (SPGBer Jim D’Arcy visits the World Socialist Party of the United States.)
I’m sure there’s something for everyone.
For those interested in that sort of thing, just a heads up that the entire issue of the January 1929 Socialist Standard is now online:
Link: January 1929 Socialist Standard
Content includes:
– Sociology of Eighteenth Century French Drama. by G. V. Plechanov.
– The Economic League Discover Some “Socialist” Fallacies.
– Wealth and Directive Ability.
– The Kings of Capital and the Captains of Industry.
– Points For Propagandists.
– What is the Use of Parliament?
– Marxism To-Day.
– Champions of Labour
– “What Would We Do Without Leaders?”
– Lessons from the American Elections
– Sticking the boot into the ILP
I’m sure there’s something for everyone.
For those interested in that sort of thing, just a heads up that the entire issue of the February 1964 Socialist Standard is now online:
Link: February 1964 Socialist Standard
Content includes:
– The coming General Election
– Kenyan independence
– A satirical guide for political candidates
– Left Communists and the development of capitalism in Russia
– Why prices go up
– Can we trust the population experts?
– A One-Act Monologue: Samson and the Philistine
– Book Review: The Trial of Charles de Gaulle.
– Book Review: A New Religion for China
– Magic of the New Year
– Open letter to Dick Taverne, MP
I’m sure there’s something for everyone.
For those interested in that sort of thing, just a heads up that the entire issue of the December 1974 Socialist Standard is now online:
Link: December 1974 Socialist Standard
Content includes:
– Sir Keith Joseph’s on the feckless poor (famous speech where he warned of the moral degeneration of Britain ‘cos the D and E’s were having too many kids.
– Noise, Health and Capitalism
– Socialism Means Free Access
– Letters on Parliament and Dictators & the SPGB are bigots.
– ‘Celebrities’ tell us how they voted. (Including Kingsley Amis, Muriel Spark and John Osborne.)
– In Socialism: Who Will Do What?
– Whatever Happened to “Full Employment”?
– Film Review
– The reformism of the International Socialists
I’m sure there’s something for everyone.
For those interested in that sort of thing, just a heads up that the entire issue of the May 1930 Socialist Standard is now online:
Link: May 1930 Socialist Standard
Content includes:
– Bombing the ‘natives’
– French Imperialism in Morocco
– Karl Marx on Christianity
– Socialism vs Nationalism
– A report of a debate with J. T. Murphy of the CPGB
– To New Readers
– Choose Your Job — And Get Rich
– Labour Party Leaders Make Unemployment
– A Commentary on the Communist Manifesto
– Tolstoy on Work
– Remember Belgium!
– Book Review on the British Labour Party
I’m sure there’s something for everyone.
For those interested in that sort of thing, just a heads up that the entire issue of the February 1969 Socialist Standard is now online:
Link: February 1969 Socialist Standard
Content includes:
– Murdoch and Maxwell fight over the News of the World
– Barbara Castle’s In Place of Strife
– The Space Race
– Political Prisoners
– Nationalisation and the steel industry
– Abolish Exchange
– The Human Nature Myth
– Paul Cardan and the Meaning of Socialism
– Book Reviews on the Soviet Union’s Great Terror and Irish Civil War
I’m sure there’s something for everyone.
For those interested in that sort of thing, just a heads up that the entire issue of the December 1988 Socialist Standard is now online:
Content includes:
– On Third World debt
– Maximilien Rubel sticks the boot into the SPGB.
– Margaret Thatcher forever?
– World War Two evacuation
– Private and Public Myths
– The Alternative Queen’s Speech
– Rumpelstiltskin – a fairy story for adults
– 1992 and all that
– Book Reviews on Ecology and Socialism and Ken Smith’s Free is Cheaper
I’m sure there’s something for everyone.
Scroll down to the final paragraph of this 1915 piece from the Socialist Standard for another reference to racism and boxing in connection with Jack Johnson:
Link: Shrapnel Splinters (1915)
The Cliff/Gluckstein book is available online:
More mentions of Ensor in the Socialist Standard at the following link:
It includes a review of the Ensor book mentioned above.
With regards to the original request for books on ‘Socialism’ in Britain from 1890-1920, a contemporary account would be Max Beer’s A History of British Socialism. Both volumes are available on the Archive.org website:
