No Date | 1940 - 1953 | 1954 - 1979 | 1979 - 1994 | 1995 - Present

The following is a list of papers held in the archives of the George Walford International Essay Prize. Over time all documents published by students of systematic ideology will be put online; access to those works not yet online is available on request. These works are not necessarily the most important; they are instead the letters that we have. If you have relevant works not listed here, please contact us so that we may compensate you for copies of them. The documents listed here were either published by students of systematic ideology or were of enough interest that they added the documents to their own collection. Documents are listed in the general time-frame they are believed to have been made, and then in alphabetical order.

Social Science Association (circa 1940-1953)
Ballade of the SPGB. Manuscript, one page. Attributed to Harold Walsby in Ideological Commentary 48.

"Before furnishing a working description of an ideology... " Manuscript, five pages. Addresses the systematic ideology use of the terms implication and identification.

The Beginning of Hegel. Manuscript, twenty-three pages. "Extract from The Secret of Hegel by J. Jutcheson Stirling."

Beyond Democracy. Handbill, one page. Advertisement for SSA presentation titled Beyond Democracy at Braziers Park, June 19-22. "The weekend has been well advertised in teh New Statesman & Nation and elsewhere, and a number of new people, interested in our approach to the problems of democracy, equality, tolerance adn human progress should be there."

Braziers Park School of Integrative Social Research. Book, twenty pages. Introduction to Braziers Park.

Change: A Talk to Young People. Manuscript, seventeen pages. Essay on logic.

Crusade or Suicide? Book, photocopy only, twenty-four pages. Published by Absolute Union of Democracy.

Democratic Union. Handbill, two pages. "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."

Democratic Union Statement of Policy. Handbill, two pages. "Democratic Union exists as a rallying point for all who believe in the democratic way of life."

The Eido-Dynamic Levels. Manuscript. eleven pages. "A draft of certain criticism of The Domain of Ideologies, pages 224 [...] to 226, and the Atoms and Ideology, page 13."

Der Fascismus auf dem Seziertisch. Morris Richards. Manuscript, twenty-seven pages. "Fascism on the disecting table." German language text, opening with a quote from Serge Chakotin's The Rape of the Masses (a singular influence on Harold Walsby's book The Domain of Ideologies).

For Your Information. Stanley Richards. Booklet, 16 pages. Hubbard Association of Scientologists. In a telephone conversation with Trevor Blake, George Hay claimed to be the person who first brought L. Ron Hubbard to England. George Hay is listed as an 'auditor' in this booklet. George Hay also founded the first British science fiction appreciation group, co-edited an edition of the 'Necronomicon' and wrote essays on systematic ideology.

Historical Matierialism. Frederick Engels. Booklet, 22 pages. Printed and published by the Socialist Labour Press, Edinburgh.

Introduction to Beyond Marxism. Richard Tatham. Manuscript, two pages incomplete.

Left Book Club. Handbill, two pages. "Our aim is to provide information and educatio non socialist lines and to encourage our members to join Socialist political parties." Mentions Miss M. Bacon, J. Smit, A. Walter.

Mass Rationality Assumption in Socialist Literature. Manuscript, twelve pages. Quotations from socialist literature demonstrating the Mass Rationality Assumption. Likely reference material for a debate.

The More We Get Together. [London]: Social Science Association, nd. Art likely by Harold Walsby. An invitation to join the (entirely fictitious) SSA United Groups: Social Club, Dance Club, Sports Club, Fashion Club, Travel Society, Film Society, Crime Club, Aero Club, Music Society, Stage Society, Arts Society, Radio Club, Book Club, Garden Club, Nature Club, Chess Club, Linguist Society, Science Club, Political Club, Philosophical Society. "A leisure-time co-op of the Social Science Association, a scientific body with members all over the world." Graphics: front cover [small] [large], page one [small] [large], page two [small] [large], page three [small] [large], page four [small] [large], page five [small] [large], page six [small] [large].

The New Marxism. Handbill, two pages. "DEMOCRATIC UNION is a new organisation formed by ex-members of the Community Party, the ILP, the SPGB, the Anarchist movement, Common Wealth, and politically unattached persons [...] Democratic Union has arranged these lectures: Dec 4 'Dialetical Materialism, the Next Stage (Richard Tatham); Dec 11 'Communism, Dialectical or Mechanical?' (B. Franklin); Dec 18 'The Historical Necessity of Titoism' (P. J. Rollings).

Outline of Argument Against MRA. Manuscript, nine pages. "The importance of the [Mass Rationality Assumption] to the SPGB case."

Preliminary. Photocopy only, twelve pages, incomplete. "The following pages contain suggestions on the development of the SSA, particularly in relation to the establishment of Democratic Union. GWW." Note by George Walford states "Original is lose typescript pages and section III is missing." Establishes Democratic Union as something of a 'front group' to the Social Science Association.

Psycho-Analysis. Mimeograph, twenty-three pages. Possibly transcribed from other sources.

Restoration of Christianity! Handbill, two pages. London: W. H. Cummins. It is possible this Christian tract was used as a model for recruiting material for the Social Science Association, and that the open speaker's platform listed on the tract were under consideration by the SSA as a forum for recruitment. The words "SSA Catechism" are written on the tract.

Separate Enclosure to be Sent Out with Letter of P. J. Rollings. Photocopy, one page. John MacGregor, John C. Rowan. Splinters within the Socialist Party of Great Britain.

Socialism. Uncredited hand written manuscript, eight pages. Examples of the Mass Rationality Assumption from the works of Marx.

Socialism Utopia to Scientific. Booklet, 29 pages. Engles. Bound in a copy of Freud and Hegel by George Walford.

" ... so far as Kant is concerned, not unintelligibly." Manuscript, incomplete, pages 2-15. Begins with " ... so far as Kant is concerned, not unintelligibly" and ends with "(From Part III, Quality commended and interpreted. Pp. 328-50.)"

The S.S.A. and its Case - S.P.G.B. Questions Answered. Handbill, two pages. Prior to 1955? "You have been asking us these questions; they ahve cropped up at every branch we visited. Here, then, are our answers, once for all, set out for easy reference. Don't waste our time by asking them again."

S.S.A. Next Meeting. Handbill, one page. "Next meeting, Friday 7th November. Our Cellar 39 Ellington St. Barnsbury n7. The Tuesday meetings at 20 Buckingham Street have now been discontinued [...] SSA meetings first Friday every month."

S.S.A. Reminder "Beyond Democracry" Handbill, one page. "June 19th-22nd Weekend. The weekend has been well advertised in teh New Statesman & Nation and elsewhere [...] Braziers Park is a very nice place, and those members who have not yet been there will enjoy it more in teh company of those who have."

"This leaflet..." Manuscript, eight pages. Begins with: "This leaflet is addressed only to members and supporters of the SPGB who, not being blinded by prejudice and strong emotional attachment to the Party, are prepared to examine rationally a scientific criticism of the Party's case."

Total Union Now! Join the Absolute Union. Absolute Union. (1) Booklet, eight pages. (2) Photocopy, five pages. "The ABSOLUTIST UNION OF DEMOCRACY is a super-political union of Conservatives, Liberals, Socialists, Communists and non-party Independents, who demand TOTAL UNION now - unity in ACTION as well as in theory." Graphics: [small] [large].

Untitled. Manuscript, sixteen pages. Begins with "Why is it that the Socialist Party, whose case appears so logical, is patently impotent as an influential factor in modern political life?"

Untitled and incomplete. Manuscript, fifteen pages. First page missing. Begins with "[...] as far as Kant is concerned, not unintelligibly."

What Is Total Democracy? Handbill, two pages. "The purpose of this lecture is to examine the present conception of Democracy, to show it is insufficient - because it does not adequately express the structure of Society, and to put forward TOTAL UNION as the true political expression of this systematic structure." Notes and drawings on back of pages.

Why Pick On Us? Petrol (aka Peter Rollings). Manuscript, four pages.

World Institute of Reforms. Professor Ismail Wieslaw Jezierski. Handbill, two pages. "The World Institute of Reforms is an independent undertaking, completely free from control or domination by any political party, race, nation, class or creed. THe introduction of lateral association to supplement pyramidal organization will enable public opinion to be moblized on a world scale to empower bodies and individuals in authority to effect much-needed changes in established system."

Walsby Society (circa 1953-1979)
A D C B. Manuscript, one page. Appears to be part of an inventory of papers. Lists "The Absolutists, Democratic Union, Campaign against SPGP, Bulletins, Science and Ideology, SSA Groups, Ideology, Dialectical Materialism, Pamphlets."

Approaches to Ideology. Peter Shepherd. Photocopy, three pages. April 23 to June 25, Wednesdays. Syllabus and diagram for a ten-week course taught by Peter Shepherd at City University. "A large part of the intention of the course is to relate systematic ideology to other approaches to (and views of the nature of) ideology. Lists George Walford's book Ideologies and their Functions, published in 1979.

Basic Research on Ideologies. Uncredited. Ten pages. The Ideological Series is described as Eiketic, Statemic, Diastatic, Procoptic, Agonic, Udenic and Medenic. Mentions Ideological Groups in the Australian Labour Party and their Attitudes, published in 1965.

Battleground Interim Report. Handbill, one page. London: George Walford.

Blea Tarn. Harold Walsby. Drawing.

Black is White. Manuscript, two pages.

Change: A Talk to Young People. Manuscript, seventeen pages.

The Credalisation Cycle. Manuscript, two pages.

Draft Constitution for the Walsby Society Events Committee. Manuscript, incomplete, one page.

The Eido-Dynamic Levels. Manuscript, eleven pages. "A draft of certain criticism of The Domain of Ideologies, pages 224 to 226, and Atoms and Ideology, page 13 to end."

GO TO 666. Photocopy, incomplete, pages 4-12. A computer program begining "GO TO 666 / STOP / END / SUBROUTINE NUCLUS / DIMENSION JX(150,150), JY150,150), JZ (150)"

Introducing the "Libertarian Communism" Group. Handbill, two pages, photocopy only. "At the 1974 Delegate Meeting of the Socialist Party of Great Britain, nine members were under chage for 'action detrimental to the interest of the Party" [...] The nine of us, together with some other Socialists - some of whom have been in the S.P.G.B., some not - are now working towards a new Socialist Group."

Movement for Social Integration. Pamphlet, four pages. Photocopy only. "Relating events and tendencies in every social field to the realisation of the best society humanly possible."

Other People's Politics: A Talk. Manuscript, fourteen pages. Suggests an ideological series of five, and that apparent contradictions are to be accepted rather than resolved.

A Summary of Ojbections to the Object and Propositions presented to the Meeting of May 10 at Highgate intended to set up the Project for Systematic Ideology. Peter Handbill, two pages. Shepherd.

Thoughts of a Reluctant Bookseller. George Walford. Photocopy, five pages. "As every bookseller knows (except for the young lady ex - very much ex - member of our staff who remarked 'Waht a lovely bright shop this would be if it wasn't for all those dirty old books') the main difficulty in bookselling is the customers."

Walsby Society. Handbill, one page. "On Wednesday 22nd May [...] at the home of Geoffrey Clark [...] ELLIS HILLMAN will give a talk on mathematics, logic and dialectic, entitled THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS."

Walsby Society. Handbill, one page. History of the Walsby Society and biographic sketch of Harold Walsby by Nat Nesbit.

What I Believe. Photocopy of transcription, nine pages. Extracted from Alfred Korzybski's 1949 book Manhood of Humanity.

Ideological Commentary (circa 1979-1994)
AAWS Papers. One page. Books and pamphlets relating to systematic ideology in the collection of Adrian Williams.

Appendix A. Manuscript, one page. "Walsby ideological nomenclatures."

Thoughts of a Reluctant Bookseller. [George Walford]. Manuscript, five pages.

Untitled. One page. Pencil sketch of the ideological series.