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I always knew that Mattick had contributed book reviews to the Western Socialist – the former journal of the World Socialist Party of the United States – but I didn't realise how many. I just clicked through Mattick's Marxist Internet Archive page and between 1944-1958, he contributed about 19 or 20 (I lost count) separate reviews during that time.
Well, it's been a while since I tried to find out anything about the book and the author, but after posting the above comment I took a chance and searched again. It threw up this wee snippet from August of this year: "Pseudonym of an untraced author, though some circumstantial evidence points to a tentative identification. Grey Lynn, an inner-city district of Auckland, New Zealand, was the birthplace of Felix (Runcie) Kelly (1914-1994), an artist who moved in 1935 to the UK, where his work was espoused by Herbert Read, who commissioned him to illustrate the 1946 edition of his sf novel, The Green Child (1935), and who wrote an introduction for a volume of his paintings – Paintings by Felix Kelly (graph 1946). Earlier, Read had introduced the sole printing of The Return of Karl Marx (1941) as by Grey Lynn; it is possible that Kelly took the city of his birth for a pseudonym, as he was serving in the RAF at the time and it was not normal practice to publish under one's own name while in uniform. The Return of Karl Marx is an sf Satire featuring the Reincarnation of the philosopher from his grave by unexplained means; after viewing the Decadent UK of 1940 (> New Zealander) he returns, sadly, to his place of rest. [JC] – See more at: http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lynn_grey#sthash.jOfeEd4j.dpuf" From this link.
There's actually a nice wee book entitled 'The Return of Karl Marx' by someone called Grey Lynn that dates from the 1941, and is a fictionalised imagining of Karl Marx waking up in war time London and encountering various individuals and left groups who speak in his name. There is a funny depiction of SPGB in the book, though they are not explicitly referred to as the SPGB . . . but it's definitely them/us.Despite looking around the internet, I've never been able to find out any information about Grey Lynn. For all I know, it's a pen name. Even the publisher of the book isn't that well known. However, the introduction was by the famous author and anarchist, Herbert Read, so maybe that's a clue to the background to the book.Worth reading if you get the chance but I note that the copies of the book that turn up secondhand on the net are really expensive for what is essentially a novella.
Just spotted that the CPGB/Weekly Worker group have uploaded an audio file of David Broder's talk:Link: Bordiga and BordigismI've not listened to it yet.
alanjjohnstone wrote:"I know from past, painful experience that I can too easily be a snotty wanker on the internet. And I always hate myself because of it after the fact."We never ever thought that anything like that…we only think you a wanker because of the team you support …On the same day 'my team' gets spanked 6-1 at the Nou Camp . . . and that's without Messi. Very cruel. 'Heartless', in fact . . . just like the Scottish Premier League next season. Will someone else explain that brilliant wee riposte to other readers on this thread. I'm too busy patting myself on the back.
What a cracking resource. Cheers for sharing. eta: And that's from someone who never liked Speakers Corner.
Nice. I miss myspace. Myspace tom is up against the wall come the revolution for fucking up myspace. I don't have the heart to try and do the same thing on facebook. I'll just do my wee bit in my wee corner on the blog.In retrospect, I'm glad you didn't too much offence at my reply because I know from past, painful experience that I can too easily be a snotty wanker on the internet. And I always hate myself because of it after the fact.cheers
DJP wrote:To be honest now that this exists:http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/archiveI can't see the point of this blog. Why not just scan the articles in and email them over?Just would seem a waste of your work if the articles are not going up here as well?Erm,cheers for that really positive reply, comrade. point 1 – Of course, the whole point is that they go in the Socialist Standard archive. That's why I'm putting the shift in. You already knew they would be turning up on the archive because I replied to your previous comment in the same vein over on Facebook a few weeks back.point 2 – Please take this in the spirit that I took your comment. The archive is piss-poorly advertised/laid out on the website. I'm surprised anyone is actually aware of it. At any one time it only lists the latest 25 uploaded articles on the archive page and they're not dated or signposted. You have to go out of your way to find them. I'm currently posting 25 plus newly transcribed articles a week so that means if they were immediately uploaded those articles to the website there would be a rapid turnover of the 'recent additions' segement of the blog which would mean a missed opportunity of people discovering the other recently uploaded articles.I raised the matter in a previous thread of the website offering an email subscription option so people could be notified of recently uploaded articles to the website. I understand the Internet Dept is looking into the feasibility of this but it's not on the immediate horizon because there are other stuff that is also needed done, Blogger allows me to offer the email subscription option in the here and now. People have taken advantage of it. I'm not hiding the articles away. I'm in regular correspondence with another member of the Internet Dept. He's been kept abreast of my thoughts on this matter. They are there for the Internet Dept to place on the website any time they wish. However, I personally believe that if we don't get the email notification thing in place then we're simply not making best use of new archive material placed on the website.point 3 – Another advantage of the blog is that it's another place on the net where interested people can stumble across the SPGB, Socialist Standard, Moses Baritz, etc etc, I'm sure you get the drift via google searches, etc, and of course that means they will also be aware of the Party website. I'm long in the tooth with this internet business. I already know from past experience the random ways people have stumbled across the Party via the strangest of searches. Of course it should all eventually lead back to the Party website, but if they happen to find out about the Party via a parallel blog what's the problem with that?point 4 – I'm currently focusing on uploading Standard articles to the blog but I have in the past – and will in the future – be posting articles from other WSM journals. For that reason alone, the blog serves its purpose in my eyes.OK, I've posted a snottyish post to your – to my eyes – snotty post. Let's now call a truce and just accept that we're both on the same side, with the same goal of raising the profile of our politics on the net and also ensuring as much of our rich history is made available on the net. It's a win-win situation.Cheers.
Some more additions to the blog:Interesting series of articles by the late John Crump – when he was, of course, still a member of the SPGB – on the SPGB and the Second International that dates from 1968:Link: May 1968Link: June 1968Link: July 1968June 1980 Socialist Standard:Link: A visit from the godsApril 1982 Socialist Standard:Link: Leadership: lessons from the pastMarch 1986 Socialist Standard:Link: A dual education Cheers.
Some recent additions of old articles to the Socialist Standard Past & Present Blog:September 1954 Socialist Standard:Link: The Socialist Standard in War TimeNovember 1985 Socialist Standard:Link: Democracy and South AfricaMarch 1964 Socialist Standard:Link: Michael Harrington's Other AmericaFebruary 1980 Socialist Standard:Link: Sex, class and socialismJune 1968 Socialist Standard:Link: Enoch Powell: aftermath or prelude Be sure to subscribe to the blog for more frequent updates, and kudos to the comrade who sent me scans of two of the pieces above for inclusion on the blog.
Try again:hello all,One for the anoraks.Just inviting list members to subscribe to a blog I maintain:Link: Socialist Standard Past & PresentThere's a subscription button in the top right hand corner of the blog, where you can submit your email address and receive email notifications of articles and reviews newly added to the blog.The blog is a combination of articles from the most recent Socialist Standards interspersed with articles and reviews from Socialist Standards – and other companion journals – from yesteryear, and which in many cases are appearing on the net for the very first time (some are already on the net as part of PDF'd Socialist Standards).Of course, in the fullness of time, those articles and reviews new to the net will be placed in the Socialist Standard archive on this website.Recent additions to the blog include a series of articles from the September 1954 commemorative issue:Link: September 1954And a few articles from the September 1979 commemorative issue:Link: September 1979That's just a wee sample. There's other articles and reviews dating from 1919 up until the 1990s. Something for everyone. More added when I have the time.yfs
I spotted the plug on SOYMB but I didn't catch the plug on Socialist Courier. Cheers for both.I am committed to trying to maintain the same level of recent posting in the New Year but these things are always contingent upon family commitments and other stuff.cheers
Anybody get along to this?I see on the libcom forum that David Broder is now ex-Commune. I can't keep up. I thought he was one of the main people in Commune. What happened?
The IP is holding a joint meeting in NYC on December 2nd:http://fischerzed.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/can-redistribution-solve-capitalisms-crises-public-meeting-in-new-york/I'm hoping to pop along to it, but it depends on family considerations.
