Labour Affairs has come across remarks coming from the left putting forward Adam Smith as admirable in some ways. I don't think we can bring ourselves to reproduce the original remarks. Adam Smith is an early champion of the worst aspects of capitalism: alienated work (the pin maker who makes one part of the pin … Continue reading Adam Smith Champion of Hard Core Capitalism
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Democracy et cetera
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor, The article on “Democracy, et cetera” in the September 'Labour Affairs' helps to put Fascism in its historical context. In political discourse today it is treated as a transcendental source of evil that can be related to any situation irrespective of time and place and therefore becomes a meaningless … Continue reading Democracy et cetera
Was The Soviet Union “A Failed World State”?
(A Reply To Remarks In Labour Affairs, September '26) The Russian Revolution was envisaged in the first instance by its creator as a preliminary to an international Socialist Revolution against Capitalism. Socialist Revolution was seen by Lenin as having been made possible, even inevitable, in the immediate future, by developments within German capitalism during the War. These developments … Continue reading Was The Soviet Union “A Failed World State”?
Guilt for 20th Century Mass Deaths
Lenin as Peacemaker Marxist Guilt? The Black Book as Unreliable Source Junk Politics About China The Meaning of Responsibility - A Wider Project? Was World War Two Unavoidable? Wider Reading Lenin as Peacemaker World War One was the biggest mass killing in Europe since the Thirty Years War. Much bigger than the combined Revolutionary and Napoleonic … Continue reading Guilt for 20th Century Mass Deaths
An Unknown Victory of Working class struggle
John ClaydenMy father Harry Clayden was born in 1905 his mother my grandmother was born in the poor house where her mother , who was a servant girl , was incarcerated. My grandmother later married dad's father who was a carter who died in a flu epidemic just before the first world war . At … Continue reading An Unknown Victory of Working class struggle
Your Party, Our Party, a Party for the Many
By Gwydion M. Williams A New Hope? The Road to the Liverpool Convention Incidentals in Liverpool What Sort of Party?’ ‘Not Invented Here’? Soft Leninism: an Argument of Trotskyists World-Changing Leninists, But Not Here Back to the Liverpool Convention Things I’d Have Liked To Say The Wider World A New Hope? The Road to the Liverpool Convention … Continue reading Your Party, Our Party, a Party for the Many
