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articul8
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at least it's non fatal
butchersapron
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Don't be inside the party.
butchersapron
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Yes, on your rollercoaster to success .This is what will happen.
It really is.
butchersapron
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The wiggums. Well done articul8
butchersapron
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Of course it's unthinkable you tool.
It's almost not unthinkable that there could be some sort of wider left realignment into a force with some traction or even that if that does happen some Labour types could play a role in it - what is unthinkable is that the LRC will play any sort of role.
articul8
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LRC could be one component of such a formation. I don't see much evidence of an organised Labour left outside of the LRC now - the old CLPDers and old CND types like Walter Wolfgang, a few young people around Socialist Action, but Compass has pretty much died a death and its left credentials were always flakey at best. Locally the new LRC branch is shaking some signs of life out of the CLP and at the same time working in a non-sectarian way on anti-cuts campaigns with groups like the SP and Green Left. Only substantial question we really differ on is standing alternative candidates or trying to exert some influence inside. Mind you there's some nutters in there too - a Posadist (a live one), two ex-WRPs now set up as Socialist Fight. Also a an ex-Workers Power, an ex Socialist Organiser, an ex-IMG, an ex AWL, I am ex-SP, christ I'm putting myself off the thing now 
I suppose at least there is some consolidation going on, and we have some young working class recruits who have never been in a Trot group
I suppose at least there is some consolidation going on, and we have some young working class recruits who have never been in a Trot group And thus you destroy your own argument in one fell post.
SpineyNorman
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Can anyone recommend a good book on Gramsci's thought? Trying to get my head around it, I've got a selection from the Prison Notebooks that I'm reading but wouldn't mind some secondary reading. Preferably someone with a more - not sure what the right terms is, Marxist? materialist? - interpretation. (as opposed to the ones that focus mainly on the intersubjective side).
I've just picked up a book this weekend actually, I haven't started it but it sounds what you are looking for I hope, the title, Gramsci's Politics (2nd edition), Anne Showstack Sassoon, "this comprehensive survey of Gramsci's political theory, which spans the whole range of his writings, provides an ideal introduction and lucid guide to his complex and often obscure texts".
Hope this helps, good luck.
butchersapron
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If you want a decent basic (and i mean basic) one that outlines the general structure Roger Simon's Gramsci's Political Thought: An Introduction will do fine, you'll be able to spot his (Simon's) euro-communist leanings a mile off - easily avoided. For something with a bit more depth and that ties in his thought with his life and political activity Antonio A. Santucci's Gramsci is worth the effort. Steve Jones did one on him in the Routledge critical thinkers series - short and to the point. In the wanky philosopher vein there is also Gramsci's Political Thought: Hegemony, Consciousness, and the Revolutionary Process by Joseph Femia. To dispel a few well worn myths i would also read the article Antonio Gramsci and the Bolshevization of the PCI by Thomas Bates.
sunnysidedown
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I recently got hold of Gramsci, Culture & Anthropology. I may pick up that Steve Jones book Butchers mentions to read alongside it as I'm new to Gramsci myself.
butchersapron
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Red Storm
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I'm interested in the political relationship between Germany, Italy and Japan up to and during WWII.
We learn and watch loads on the relationship between Britain, USA and USSR but I've never seen anything on the axis relationship. I'd have thought Hitler and Hirohito would have been a good title but no.
Any recommendations?
We learn and watch loads on the relationship between Britain, USA and USSR but I've never seen anything on the axis relationship. I'd have thought Hitler and Hirohito would have been a good title but no.
Any recommendations?
brogdale
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Perhaps primarily one for the anarcho-types, but a really interesting read nonetheless:-
"Anarchist seeds beneath the snow"
Weary of reading about the Germans, Russians, Spanish and Italians? Want to know about some 'home-grown' left-libertarian thought? Then this is the book for you!
David Goodway examines the lives, thoughts and works of a number of British Socialists, Utopians, left-libertarians and fellow travellers including Morris, Wilde, Carpenter, Read, Huxley and Ward. Really well reasearched, passionate and surprisingly accessible for an amalgam of Goodway's life's research!
I thoroughly recommend the book, and perhaps best of all, this is a book about books that inspires you to go on and read widely from the 'tradition'. Thus far, as a result of Goodway's work, I've read Huxley's "Island", John Cowper Powys' extraordinary "Porious", (oh my word...what a book!!!), and Morris' delightful "News from Nowhere".
"Anarchist seeds beneath the snow"
Weary of reading about the Germans, Russians, Spanish and Italians? Want to know about some 'home-grown' left-libertarian thought? Then this is the book for you!
David Goodway examines the lives, thoughts and works of a number of British Socialists, Utopians, left-libertarians and fellow travellers including Morris, Wilde, Carpenter, Read, Huxley and Ward. Really well reasearched, passionate and surprisingly accessible for an amalgam of Goodway's life's research!
I thoroughly recommend the book, and perhaps best of all, this is a book about books that inspires you to go on and read widely from the 'tradition'. Thus far, as a result of Goodway's work, I've read Huxley's "Island", John Cowper Powys' extraordinary "Porious", (oh my word...what a book!!!), and Morris' delightful "News from Nowhere".
brogdale
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This thread seems a little slow atm, so I'll give it another go, shall I?
I'm presently working my way through Mark Bevir's "The Making of British Socialism" and a jolly fascinating read it is. Ian Bone was recently highlighting the 50th anniversiary of E P Thompson's "The making of..." and I'm sure that Bevir tips a wink of recogntion in his choice of title for his 2011 book. I'll also confess that i was rather taken with the cover,
, that includes a partly coloured, wonderful reproduction of Walter Crane's "Capitalist Vampire":-
In reading this book I suppose I wanted to explore in some depth the question in my own mind about where it all went wrong for British Socilaism? Why have we been left with a 'left' of a neo-liberal, ex social democracy party and an array of fragmented an ineffectual radical/revolutionary parties?
i suppose it's a bit premature to come to any conclusions about whether Bevir's book has helped me in this personal quest, but so far I've certainly learnt a good deal about the early Marxists, especially the SDF under Hyndman and the Fabians. Still much to read though.
The official blurb on the book:-
I'm presently working my way through Mark Bevir's "The Making of British Socialism" and a jolly fascinating read it is. Ian Bone was recently highlighting the 50th anniversiary of E P Thompson's "The making of..." and I'm sure that Bevir tips a wink of recogntion in his choice of title for his 2011 book. I'll also confess that i was rather taken with the cover,
, that includes a partly coloured, wonderful reproduction of Walter Crane's "Capitalist Vampire":-
In reading this book I suppose I wanted to explore in some depth the question in my own mind about where it all went wrong for British Socilaism? Why have we been left with a 'left' of a neo-liberal, ex social democracy party and an array of fragmented an ineffectual radical/revolutionary parties?
i suppose it's a bit premature to come to any conclusions about whether Bevir's book has helped me in this personal quest, but so far I've certainly learnt a good deal about the early Marxists, especially the SDF under Hyndman and the Fabians. Still much to read though.
The official blurb on the book:-
SpineyNorman
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Cheers for the Gramsci recommendations - only just seen them. butchersapron - the pdf in post 441 is set to private now so I can't view it - don't suppose you know if it's online anywhere else? Cheers.
I'm reading Christopher Cramer's Civil War is not a Stupid Thing at the moment - his thesis seems to be that civil war (though not necessarily only civil war) in developing countries is as much about the severing traditional ties of deference and mutual responsibility, primitive accumulation and class formation as anything else. So rather than it being, as liberal theorists claim, 'development in reverse' it in fact is capitalist development. He seems to be using a broadly historical materialist framework but I'm getting the impression that there are also some modernization theory influences there too - though I might be wrong on that one, not got far enough to judge.
It's a really interesting read though and it presents arguments I've not seen anywhere else - worth a look for anyone interested in Africa and especially Angola. He also talks about the influence of war on the Ethiopian famine, and since I was a kid in the 80s pretty much everything I knew about that had come from Bob Geldoff - I'd always thought it was all about droughts.
I'm reading Christopher Cramer's Civil War is not a Stupid Thing at the moment - his thesis seems to be that civil war (though not necessarily only civil war) in developing countries is as much about the severing traditional ties of deference and mutual responsibility, primitive accumulation and class formation as anything else. So rather than it being, as liberal theorists claim, 'development in reverse' it in fact is capitalist development. He seems to be using a broadly historical materialist framework but I'm getting the impression that there are also some modernization theory influences there too - though I might be wrong on that one, not got far enough to judge.
It's a really interesting read though and it presents arguments I've not seen anywhere else - worth a look for anyone interested in Africa and especially Angola. He also talks about the influence of war on the Ethiopian famine, and since I was a kid in the 80s pretty much everything I knew about that had come from Bob Geldoff - I'd always thought it was all about droughts.
butchersapron
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I'll re-upload it in a bit.
SpineyNorman
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Cheers mate.
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SpineyNorman
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Cheers, much appreciated.
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