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The Social Science Association Introduces Democratic Union

May 30, 2012

The Social Science Association Introduces Democratic Union Scientific ideology All-Party conception Political democracy Economic democracy Anti-fascism MASS PSYCHOLOGY The new scientific field WHEN the second world war broke out, it was the signal in the intellectual world for a tremendous rebirth of activity. There poured forth books and pamphlets on the world situation; social problems… read more »

Will Penman: Chiropracting Systematic Ideology

August 14, 2012

Winner, 2009 George Walford International Essay Prize. In 1947, Harold Walsby wrote The Domain of Ideologies; a Study of the Origin, Development, and Structure of Ideologies. About forty years later, George Walford published Beyond Politics: An Outline of Systematic Ideology. If these two books form the backbone of the socio-political theory known as “systematic ideology,”… read more »

John Rowan: George Walford Memorial

August 16, 2012

Harold Walsby circa 1940s I don’t know when I met George, but it must have been after 1951, when I came back to London after raveling round the North of England with Harold Walsby, selling encyclopaedias. There were several of us at that time interested in Walsby’s ideas, and the two I knew best were… read more »

Paul Minet: Seeking George Walford

August 18, 2012

   George Walford died in late August 1994, an event not much noticed in the [Antiquarian Bookselling] trade. We stood in silent memory of him, as is our custom with ABA members, at the ABA Committee, but there was little talk of him then or afterwards. Some surprising people said they had never met him…. read more »

Harold Walsby: Mugwump and Moonshine

June 3, 2012

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 »

George Walford: Repression in Ideology

August 24, 2012

In calling attention to the persistence of early modes of behaviour we have to think why this should be particularly necessary in social and ideological connections. The answer lies in the complex nature of the process by which thinking advances. Although the development, the horizontal extension, of any ideology proceeds for the most part steadily,… read more »

Harold Walsby: Science and Utopia

August 25, 2012

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 »

Jonathan Simcock: Review of Beyond Politics

August 21, 2014

Reviewed by Jonathan Simcock in Freedom 17 April. George Walford has contributed articles on anarchism and related issues to both Freedom and The Raven, and regularly features in Freedom‘s correspondence columns. Much of his arguments and ideas in these pieces derive from his exposition of ‘systematic ideology,’ which attempts to examine and explain ‘ideology’ and… read more »

Ken Smith: Review of Beyond Politics

August 31, 2012

SPANNER 4, so long awaited, includes both Napoleonics of Marxism (for the appearance of that in SPANNER and IC in the same week see the Editorial in IC 57), and a review of Beyond Politics by Ken Smith. In reprinting the review we omit one paragraph on Popper and another on Huxley and Orwell and… read more »

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