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George Walford: Explaining the Explainers

August 2, 2012

It is sometimes suggested that people take the political positions they do because of their personalities. Thus Adorno and his colleagues have suggested that fascism is particularly linked with “the authoritarian personality” and Eysenck has suggested that adoption of this or that position is connected with one’s “tough-” or “tender-mindedness.” One way of testing an… read more »

Abert Meltzer: Reply to the Article Entitled “The Anarchist Police Force”

August 21, 2014

The article “The Anarchist Police Force” contains the usual inaccuracies and generalisations of articles of this nature. There is an abysmal ignorance of the anarchist anarcho-syndicalist movement in Spain in this, country and its history (pre-organisational; years of struggle; civil war; after; today). But superficial Marxist observers have some flip answers. All agree that in… read more »

George Walford: Reply to the Reply

August 21, 2014

It is of course in order to use a reply to an article as a chance to put one’s own case over. But the conventions require that the “reply” should at least pretend to be relevant to the main theme of the original, and Mr. Meltzer has not made much effort in that direction. The… read more »

George Walford: Addition to News and Notes

August 5, 2012

MEMORIAL LECTURE FOR 1980. A circular was recently sent to Supporters asking for their reactions to the proposal that George Walford be invited to deliver the Annual Harold Walsby Memorial Lecture for 1980. All replies supported the proposal, except one. That one reply questioned the “cost-effectiveness” of these Lectures and suggested alternatives. The Walsby Society… read more »

Sheila Blanchard: Review of Ideologies and Their Functions

August 5, 2012

Systematic Ideology is a field of study originating in, and developing from, the work of the late Harold Walsby, whose book The Domain of Ideologies was published in 1947. Ideologies and their Functions describes the development of Walbsy’s theory, interest in which has been maintained by his friends and followers, and the relevance of that… read more »

George Walford: Introducing Ideology

August 5, 2012

TEACH (Technology, Education and Change) is a new pressure group concerned about the impact of microprocessors and other technologies on education. We hope in the next issue of IC to have an article giving an account of its work. In the meantime, if you want to knot more, write to: Colin Mably, S.L.U., [ADDRESS]. TEACH… read more »

George Walford: Latest News from the Class Struggle Front

August 5, 2012

Sir Anthony Blunt has confessed to being a Marxist and a Soviet spy. Sir Anthony is (or was) a Cambridge don, Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures and a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. Another one of those Working-class Communists. from Ideological Commentary 3, December 1979.

George Walford: On Liberty, Despotism and Suppression

August 5, 2012

We are all familiar with the famous passage from J. S. Mill’s essay On Liberty. Or if we are not then we ought to be, and IC makes no apology for reproducing its crucial sentences: The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle… That principle is that the sole end for… read more »

George Walford: The Ideology of Freedom

September 11, 2012

This paper is mainly a commentary on David Friedman‘s book The Machinery of Freedom. [1] Where it expands into comments on Anarcho-Capitalism (one name for the social system Mr.Friedman expounds) it is still based wholly on his book. I have heard a talk given by an Anarcho-Capitalist to the Walsby Society, but my recollections of… read more »

George Walford: Projection and its Consequences

August 5, 2012

In the course of his psycho-analytical investigation Freud laid bare many mechanisms, many processes going on in our minds, of which we normally refrain more or less unaware. In some cases the same – or very similar – processes are to be observed at work in the ideological realm, and of these one of the… read more »