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 »
The anarchists often claim to be independent of one another, and at first sight they do seem to be if not wholly independent at least deeply divided, but their divisions have a way of disappearing on examination. One which at first sight may seem fundamental is between the orthodox (if I may use that term)… read more »
The article which follows is reprinted (slightly edited) with permission from Science and Public Policy, February 1984. The author is Zvi Lamm, MA, PhD, of the School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. – GW Professor Zvi Lamm served in the British Army in Europe (1943 – 46) and with the Israeli Defence Forces (1950… 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 »
Adam and Eve. No clothes, no house, one apple between them and they thought they were in paradise. from Ideological Commentary 13, September 1984.
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 »
(This is an edited version of the letter that was sent, with alterations intended to improve its clarity.) Dear ______, Far from not having much idea what s.i. is all about, you are raising some of the crucial issues. I would like to reply more promptly but do not find these things can be handled… 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 »
The Americans seem to have halted the deterioration of their inner cities; New York had been a particularly troublesome case. But whether they have managed to cure the trouble, or only to suppress the symptoms, remains to be seen. They still have tension between white and black (as we have in Britain also). Previous waves… read more »
“A censorship-free social environment would not be a social environment at all, it would be a maniac’s nightmare.” Sir Edmund Leach, quoted by M. I. Finley in TLS July 1977. from Ideological Commentary 12, August 1984.