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George Walford: Democracy

August 27, 2012

Neither rulers nor ruling classes impose the political structure; it grows from the ideological system, it is an attempt to provide formal expression for power-relations between the groups attached to the various major ideologies. Once this has been recognised, the development of democracy begins to appear in a different light. Commonly seen as according progressively… read more »

Isaac Barr, S. E. Parker, Donald Rooum, George Walford: Letters

August 11, 2013

Sir, I think that all Stirner means is ‘That it is not a good thing to tell the truth all the time.’ I think Kant would agree with that. Yours etc. Isaac Barr Sir, I will accept your injunction not to discuss, for the time being, the issues raised so far in the debate on… read more »

George Walford: Notes on Science

August 28, 2012

‘Science, it may be said by those who are not scientists, deals in objective truth. But the scientists themselves do not see their work that way. They see it as dealing not with objective truth but with convenient fictions that are upheld so long as they continue to be useful.’ (Bailey, F. G. 1991 The… read more »

George Walford: Doing the Splits (60)

August 28, 2012

Under this title IC reports instances of the divisiveness of the eidodynamics. This feature contrasts with the emphasis on loyalty, faith in the leader and ‘don’t rock the boat’ displayed by the eidostatics. NOTING the difficulties of the government, Michael Jones remarked that the Labour MPs should be cheerful: ‘But they are not, because the… read more »

George Walford: Eastern Ideology

August 28, 2012

A. C. Graham 1991 Unreason Within Reason: Essays on the Outskirts of Rationality Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company. 309 pages. Cloth 0-8126-9166-0 $59.95; Paper 0-8126-9167-9 $19.95. Reviewed by George Walford. Physical science, high technology, market capitalism and political democracy belong to a syndrome. Although now worldwide, it emerged spontaneously only in western Europe, arriving elsewhere… read more »

George Walford: Riot Against Revolution

August 28, 2012

High among anarchist journals stands the American publication Anarchy, a Journal of Desire Armed.[1] Aggressive, outspoken, provocative, highly literate, excellently edited, maintaining professional standards of production, stretching through the bars of the anarchist ghetto to reach the bookstalls, we highly recommend it. (As an added attraction, it vigorously opposes the ideas put forward in IC,… read more »

George Walford: The Rational Effort

August 28, 2012

For people who claim to be rational, or trying to become so, one task overrides all others: to understand the society we both inhabit and constitute. Only by doing this can we hope to understand ourselves, our gods or our environment, for all of these are largely produced by our ideology-governed society. People display different… read more »

George Walford: Sexual Ideology

August 28, 2012

For a few years there it looked as though the ancient barriers were down at last. The permissive society had arrived. We still had to work, and war, unemployment and other old enemies were just over the horizon, but sex was free. A natural impulse long repressed, it had now burst out and the young,… read more »

George Walford: Mises, Marx and Markets

August 28, 2012

David Ramsay Steele, 1992, From Marx to Mises, post-capitalist society and the challenge of economic calculation. Chicago: Open Court. 6 x 9 in., 458 pages. $17.95 paper, $39.95 cloth. Reviewed by George Walford Remember Lenin, and his claim that imperialism was the highest and final stage of capitalism? The empires he knew have gone but… read more »

George Walford: Creative Argument

August 28, 2012

Local councils in the UK had to be barred from using ‘creative accounting’ to get round financial restrictions imposed by central government. How about ‘creative argument’ as a name for attempts to get round the restrictions imposed by responsible thinking? For example: The Mount Everest Fallacy: Some have become socialists (communists, anarchists); this shows that… read more »