In a piece entitled Canon to the Left of Them, IC 32 spoke of: … the enduring absorptive power of the ediostatic ideologies, of the Establishment… the process that turned Darwin, Newton, Galileo and Copernicus, each of them a revolutionary in his time, into heroes of orthodoxy, the process that is not far from having… read more »
The party pamphlet Questions of the Day (1978) tells us that “in Britain about 90 per cent of the adult population are workers, retired workers or the dependants of workers” (p. 5). That amounts to something over forty million people. The same pamphlet says capitalism “can never be made to work in the interests of… read more »
A problem facing systematic ideology (our opponents of the [anarcho-] Socialist Party tend to be less aware that it is a problem facing them too) is whether it is possible to demonstrate the existence of a world “out there.” If it can be shown that there is, as there seems to be, a world independent… read more »
IC 12, 13, 14 and the Challenge have had a good deal to say about the “Socialist” (more accurately, anarcho-socialist) Party of Great Britain. We expect to have more to say about it in the future but the material now on the table enables us to show the reason for our interest. As far as… read more »
The Socialist Standard for August 1984 says: The working class […] run society from top to bottom. The same journal for October 1984 says, of the proposition that ‘the exploited control their own exploitation’ that it ‘defied logic.’ But if the workers run society from top to bottom then they must control their own exploitation,… read more »
The Socialist Standard for August 1984 says: The working class […] run society from top to bottom. The same journal for October 1984 says: The capitalists […] are busy doing multi-million pound deals with the Russians and Chinese ruling classes. So where do those deals fit in? Above the top? Or below the bottom? from… read more »
An old joke is usually a good one, and there is a Scottish joke we have long relished: A traveller asks directions to Auchterlochty and is told he has passed it. “Passed it? But I didn’t see anything – no houses, no shops, no pub, no church, no people.” “Aye, mon, yon’s the place.” The… read more »
THE WORKERS OWN NOTHING. WHAT, NOTHING? YES, NOTHING. WHAT, NOTHING? WELL, HARDLY ANYTHING. The Socialist Party of Great Britain tell us the working class own no part of the world’s wealth. Clause Number Two of their Declaration of Principles defines the workers as “those who produce but do not posses.” In the Head Office of… read more »
The Socialist Standard of September 1981 tells us why capitalism survives: The capitalist social system continues in existence, not because it is efficient or beneficial or controllable. The very opposite is true: it exists because, in spite of the facts of experience, the people under it will it to continue. – p. 162 The official… read more »
I have said and written a good deal about Harold Walsby’s theories and have always set myself as it were on his side, accepting what he said and trying to take it farther. But there is one paper he issued which I am not able to accept; his diagram entitled “Attitude to Paradox,” which appears… read more »