YOU AND THE S.S.A. New Growth and Interest As a result of the activity of the S.S.A., interest in the socio-political side of human nature, particularly in the scientific study of ideology and in ideological research, is growing steadily among the more enlightened sections of the community. Consequent upon this new interest me SSA finds… read more »
To the Editors, “Socialist Standard” Dear Comrades: Your very belated review in the Socialist Standard (April 1949) of my book, The Domain of Ideologies, unlike your reviewer’s appraisal of the latter, is certainly not disappointing – though, no doubt, it was fervently intended to be so. It comes fully up to expectations and, so far… read more »
Harold Walsby, founder of the study now known as systematic ideology, began his investigations in 1938-39, first using the title ‘psychopolitics.’ The Social Science Association (October 1944 to 18 January 1956) joined with Messrs. William MacLellan to produce his only book, The Domain of Ideologies. It also issued a number of pamphlets intended for general… read more »
TOTAL UNION NOW! JOIN THE ABSOLUTE UNION THE ABSOLUTE UNION OF DEMOCRACY In this supreme crisis of the world, a new and movement is fast arising. It not only voices the grim resolve that the foul disease of Fascism must be wiped from the face of the earth; it represents the solid concrete fact that… read more »
Unity and Tolerance DEMOCRATIC UNION IS a new movement, which all Democratic people can join. WORKS for Total Democracy: Political Democracy (freedom of speech) plus Economic Democracy (freedom from want). BELIEVES that as a nation we should stand on our own feet, and that the scientists can help us do it. BRITAIN TODAY is facing… read more »
On 1 October 1942, the Absolute Union of Democracy held a public meeting titled Fire Over Europe. It could be these two undated photographs give a flavor of what Fire Over Europe might have looked like. The Absolute Union of Democracy published books and handbills including Crusade or Suicide!, Unity and Tolerance and Total… read more »
This pamphlet was issued under the title Science, Politics and the Masses in October 1944. It was republished without significant changes as Understanding the Mass Mind in May 1945. The quotes given here from “The Demos” by Harold Walsby make reference to an unpublished and lost manuscript. Similar quotes can be found in Walsby’s… read more »
From Universum – Populair Wetenschappeluk Maandblad #3, 20 March 1949 De ideologie (de leer der ideën) is een uit Frankrijk afkomstige richting in de wijsbegeerte (Voltaire, Destutt de Tracy. Cabanis), die zich bezig houdt met de psychologische analyse en de vorming der idee en. Ze verwerpt bet bovenna-tuurlijke, baseert zich op psychologie en anthropologie en… read more »
(Index not found in original, prepared by Trevor Blake) Baldwin, Earl Banks, Sir R. M Brady, Robert A Brogan, Colm Brumwell, J. R. M Cecil, Lord Hugh Chakotin, Serge Chamberlain, William Henry Drennan, James Eddington, Sir Arthur Engles, Friedrich Ferenczi, Sandor Freud, Sigmund Gangulee, Nagendranath Goebbles, Joseph Hegel, Georg Heiden, Konrad Hitler, Adolph Jung, Carl… read more »
(Bibliography not found in original, prepared by Trevor Blake) Books The Concise Oxford Dictionary (Oxford University, 1944) Enciclopedia Italiana 14th Edition (Hogarth Press, 1932) Whitaker’s Almanack (1945) Bacon, Francis: Instauratio Magna (1620) Baldwin, Earl: On England (Philip Allan, 1926) Banks, Sir R. M.: The Conservative Outlook (Chapman and Hall, 1929) Brady, Robert A.: The Spirit… read more »