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Review of Angles on Anarchism from Freedom

April 24, 2014

What happens at anarchist meetings, often enough, is that someone rehearses a particular argument for the anarchist case, and other anarchists present pick holes in the argument, point out errors of fact or reasoning. This is enjoyable because anarchists in general enjoy arguments, and instructive because it helps you to avoid looking silly when arguing… read more »

Julia Stapleton: Review of Beyond Politics

September 10, 2012

Review by Julia Stapleton from Durham University Journal (July). Reprinted by permission of the Journal and the reviewer. – GW. The emergence of this book suggests that grand narrative in the human sciences lives on, despite the attempts of postmodernists to sign its death warrant. For Walford contends that ideology forms part of an evolutionary… read more »

Martin Stuart-Fox: Review of Beyond Politics

August 21, 2014

This review first appeared in The Australian Journal of Politics and History Volume 39 Number 2, October 1993. Systematic ideology is not a well known body of theory. In fact it is largely due to two men. Harold Walsby and George Walford. The work under review is an elaboration and refinement of earlier studies: Walsby’s… read more »

Plugging the Gap: a Review of George Walford’s Beyond Politics by George Hay

September 10, 2012

This review first appeared in Science & Public Policy Volume 17 Number 5, October 1990. Systematic ideology has been defined as “the ideology of ideology.” That this definition was provided, not by George Walford, but by an early reader of his book, Thelma Shinn, of the State University of Arizona, supports Mr. Walford’s contention that… read more »

George Walford: Synopsis of Beyond Politics

September 10, 2012

This undated and previously unpublished work was discovered among the papers of the George Walford. SYSTEMATIC IDEOLOGY – A study of the Structure, origin and evolution of ideologies Introduction Ideology, usually seen as a distorting influence, is best understood as a normal part of social life. Karl Marx’s class theory of ideology is the only… read more »

George Walford: Index of Beyond Politics

September 10, 2012

Abad de Santillan D. Aborigines Africa Akkad of Sargon Alaska Algeria Amazonian Indians America American Great Basin Asquith H.H. Assyria Auden W.H. AustraliaBabeuf F.N. Bacon F. Bagehot W. Bakunin M. Balcells Bantu Barcelona Barclay H. Benn T. Benthall J. Bentham J. Bentley M. Beveridge W. Bismarck O. von Blanqui Bloch J. Bookchin M. Bornu Brand… read more »

George Walford: Select Bibliography from Beyond Politics

September 10, 2012

Auden, W. H. & Kronenberger L. (eds.) 1964. The Faber Book of Aphorisms. London: Faber and Faber. Banton M. (ed.) 1966. The Anthropology of Complex Societies. London: Tavistock Publications. Barclay H. 1982. People Without Government. London: Kahn & Averill with Cienfuegos Press. Barrett D. B. 1982. The World Christian Encyclopedia; A comparative study of churches… read more »

George Walford: Notes & References from Beyond Politics

September 10, 2012

Chapter 1: Introduction 1. Lamm 1984 2. Ibid Chapter 2: Politics as Ideology 1. Marx and Engels 1970, 47 2. Marx and Engels 1978, 436 3. Ibid, 446 4. Gouldner 1985, 7 5. Woodcock 1963, 134 6. Marx and Engels 1978, footnote to the English Edition of 1888 7. SPGB 1969 20,21 Chapter 3: The… read more »

George Walford: Appendices from Beyond Politics

September 10, 2012

Appendix A: Anarchism in Spain One apparent exception to the rule, that the nearer to anarchism a movement stands the smaller and weaker it tends to be, is provided by the strength of the anarchist movement in Spain prior to and during the Civil War. In discussing this I rely mainly on The Spanish Civil… read more »

George Walford: Conclusion from Beyond Politics

September 10, 2012

In the opening pages I noted that a theory of ideology must account for the presence of differing ideologies within the one society. Systematic ideology explains the major or main-sequence ideologies as stages in the universal system of evolution and the minor ideologies, the more localised and transient ones, as specialised versions of one or… read more »