DOCSLIB.ORG

Chapter 1: Introduction 1

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Notes Chapter 1: Introduction 1. The two main accounts, apart from some useful anthologies, have been G. D. H. Cole, A History of Socialist Thought, 5 vols (Macmillan, 1953-60) and, before him, Max Beer, History of British Socialism (G. Bell & Sons, 1929). A recent interesting work has been Nicolas Ellison, Egalitarian Thought and Labour Politics: Retreating Visions (Routledge, 1994). 2. The difficulties of conceiving this has led to misunderstandings of the nature of this work - see, for example, Ellison, ibid., p. x. 3. J. M. Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (Macmillan, 1974 edn) p. 383. 4. H. M. Drucker, Doctrine and Ethos in the Labour Party (George Allen & Unwin, 1979). 5. Leo Panitch, Social Democracy and Industrial Militancy: The Labour Party, the Trade Unions and Incomes Policy, 1945-74 (Cambridge Uni­ versity Press, 1976). 6. The Labour Party Foundation Conference and Annual Conference Reports, 1900-1905 (London, 1967) p. 12. 7. Noel Thompson has written about Hodgskin in The Market and its Critics: Socialist Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Rout­ ledge, 1988), but he virtually ignores Hodgskin's writings on trade unionism at the expense of the pro-market enthusiasm of the years when Hodgskin was editor of The Economist. In contrast, Edward Thompson has pointed to the contemporary importance of Hodgskin's labourism in The Making of the English Working Class (penguin Books, 1968 edn) pp. 569, 887. 8. Thomas Hodgskin, Labour Defended Against the Claims of Capital (Labour Publishing Co., 1922 edn) p. 89. 9. Karl Marx, Theories of Surplus Value, Part III (Lawrence & Wishart, 1972 edn) p. 296. 10. Hodgskin, Labour Defended, pp. 89-90. 11. Ibid., p. 106. 12. Ibid., p. 26. 13. See, for example, R. Samuel and G. Stedman Jones, 'The Labour Party and Social Democracy', in R. Samuel and G. Stedman Jones (eds), Culture, Ideology and Politics: Essays for Eric Hobsbawm (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983). The labourism thesis has been put forward by a number of New Left writers, notably Perry Anderson and Tom Nairn in 'The Nature of the Labour Party', New Left Review, no. 27, September-October 1964,. and no. 28, November-December, 1964. However, it was never stated with precision as a set of political ideas, its radical aspects were ignored by a concentration on its con­ servative aspects, and its relationship with socialism was never adequately defined. 349 350 The Labour Party's Political Thought Introduction to Part Two: The Fonnation of British Socialism 1. E. Durbin (ed.), Socialism: The British Way (Essential Books, 1948) p. 1. Chapter 2: Marxists, Fabians and Ethical Socialists: The Traditions of British Socialism 1. Stanley Pierson presents an interesting account of the British nature of Marxism in Marxism and the Origins of British Socialism (Cornell Uni­ versity Press, 1973), though he overestimates Hyndman's radicalism and does not relate the ideology to labourism. 2. Karl Marx, Capital, vol. 1 (Lawrence & Wishart, 1974) p. 558. 3. Marx defined the rate of profit as the ratio of surplus value to the total capital in society, differentiating it from the rate of surplus value of labour power. Hodgskin confused the rate of profit with the rate of surplus value and did not recognise the importance of the falling rate of profit. To Marx, this fall was 'in every respect the most important law of modem political economy, and the most essential for understanding the most difficult of relations' (Grundrisse, trans. M. Nicolaus, Penguin, 1973, p. 748). 4. Marx, Theories of Surplus Value, Part III (Lawrence & Wishart, 1972) especially p. 296. 5. See, for example, Marx's letters on Ireland in Marx, The First Inter- national and After, ed. D. Fernbach (penguin, 1974). 6. Quoted in Marx, ibid., p. 270. 7. Marx and Engels, On Britain (Lawrence & Wishart, 1968) p. 574. 8. See, for example, H. M. Hyndman, The Historical Base of Socialism in England (Kegan Paul, 1883) p. 287. 9. Engels to Sorge, 4 May 1887, in Marx and Engels, Selected Correspond­ ence (progress, 1975). 10. Tom Mann, What is the ILP Driving At? (Labour Press Society, 1894) p. 11. 11. G.B. Shaw, Bernard Shaw and Karl Marx: A Symposium (Random House, 1930) pp. 170-1. This contains the early debates on Marx's theory of values in the Fabian Society. 12. Quoted in N. and J. McKenzie, The First Fabians (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1977) p. 153. 13. Ibid., p. 8. 14. Shaw, The Impossibilities of Anarchism (Fabian Tract 45, London, 1893) p.27. 15. Labour Party, Annual Conference Report (1923) p. 178. 16. Fabian News, November 1896, p. 35. 17. Fabian News, January 1897, p. 43. 18. New Statesman, 2 August 1913, p. 525. 19. Beatrice Webb, Our Partnership (Longmans, Green, 1948) p. 195. See also Shaw, 'Illusions of Socialism,' in Edward Carpenter (ed.), Forecasts of the Coming Century (Clarion Press, 1896). 20. Ibid., p. 539. 21. Stephen Yeo, in 'Notes on Three Socialisms - Collectivism, Statism and Associationism', in C. Levy (ed.), Socialism and the Intelligentsia, 1880- Notes 351 1914 (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987) brings out the ambiguous nature, conservative and radical, of the vague term 'community'. 22. Quoted in C. Tsuzliki, Edward Carpenter, 1844-1929 (Cambridge Uni­ versity Press, 1980) p. 117. 23. J. B. Glasier and K. St John Conway, The Religion of Socialism (Labour Press Society, 1890) p. 16. 24. Robert Blatchford, Merrie England (Clarion Office, n.d.) p. 119. 25. Ibid., pp. 47-8. 26. R. Blatchford, Britain for the British (Clarion, 1902), p. 151. Chapter 3: The Emergence of British Socialism 1. Duncan Tanner gives an account of the ideas in Labour politics in this period in Political Change and the Labour Party (Cambridge University Press, 1990), but, as with so many otherwise excellent historians, it is couched in terms of political strategies. See Stanley Pierson, British Socialists: The Journey from Fantasy to Reality (Harvard University Press, 1979) for a different approach to ideas as Weltanshauungen. 2. Labour Leader, 19 September 1904. 3. Labour Leader, April 1893. 4. Keir Hardie, From Serfdom to Socialism (George Allen, 1907) p. 35. 5. Ibid., p. 44. 6. Ibid., p. 24. 7. Ibid., p. 79. 8. Ibid., pp. 77-8. 9. Labour Leader, January 1894. 10. Keir Hardie, Labour Politics (Independent Labour Party, 1903) p. 8. 11. Keir Hardie, My Confession of Faith in the Labour Alliance (Independent Labour Party, 1909) p. 5. 12. Ibid., p. 6. 13. Ibid., p. 12. 14. Quoted in Frank Johnson, Keir Hardie's Socialism (Independent Labour Party, 1922) p. 9. 15. Quoted in ibid., p. 11. 16. Keir Hardie, My Confession, p. 3. 17. Isabella Ford, Women and Socialism (Independent Labour Party, 1904) p.8. 18. Keir Hardie, From Serfdom to Socialism, p. 63. 19. Ibid., pp. 68-9. 20. Labour Leader, 26 January 1901. 21. Labour Leader, 27 January 1900. 22. Keir Hardie, India: Impressions and Suggestions (Independent Labour Party, 1909) pp. 78-9. 23. Winston Churchill, Great Contemporaries (Thornton Butterworth, 1937) p.293. 24. Philip Snowden, The Christ That Is To Be (Independent Labour Party, 1903) p. 10. 25. Philip Snowden, The Economic Case for Socialism (Independent Labour Party, 1921) p. 11. 352 The Labour Party's Political Thought 26. Philip Snowden, Labour and the New World (Cassell, 1921) p. 10. 27. Ibid., p. 112. 28. Hansard (1924) vol. 172, col. 1610. 29. Philip Snowden, The Way to Industrial Peace (The Brotherhood Move­ ment, 1927) p. 13. 30. Hansard (1930-1) vol. 248, col. 448. 31. MacDonald to Crisp, 16 July 1894, quoted in David Marquand, Ramsay MacDonald (Jonathan Cape, 1977) p. 36. 32. James Ramsay MacDonald, Socialism and Society (Independent Labour Party, 1905) p. 29. 33. Ibid., p. 31. 34. Ibid., p. 2. 35. Ibid., p. 61. 36. Ibid., p. 70. 37. Ibid., p. xx. 38. James Ramsay MacDonald, Parliament and Democracy (National Labour Press, 1920) pp. 35, 71. 39. MacDonald, Socialism and Society, p. 127. 40. James Ramsay MacDonald, Socialism (T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1907) p. 12. 41. Ibid., p. 55. 42. James Ramsay MacDonald, Socialism, Critical and Constructive (Cassell, 1921) p. 175. 43. James Ramsay MacDonald, The Social Unrest: its Cause and Solution (T. N. Foulis, 1913) p. 104. 44. Quoted in Marquand, Ramsay MacDonald, pp. 83-4. 45. MacDonald, Socialism and Society, pp. 159, 164. 46. Hansard (1929-30) vol. 229, col. 65. 47. Marquand, Ramsay MacDonald, p. 641. 48. Quoted in Carl F. Brand, British Labour's Rise to Power (Stanford University Press, 1941) p. 69. 49. ILP, Annual Conference Report (1915) pp. 109-10. 50. Labour Party, Annual Conference Report (1917) p. 82. 51. H. N. Brailsford, The War of Steel and Gold (G. Bell & Sons, 1915 edn) p.62. 52. Ibid., p. 63. 53. Ibid., p. 80. 54. Ibid., p. 231. 55. Ibid., p. 80. 56. Ralph Miliband, Parliamentary Socialism (Merlin, 1972 edn) p. 62. Chapter 4: R. H. Tawney and the Philosophy of British Socialism 1. For the varied nature of interpretations of Tawney, see Ross Terrill, R. H. Tawney and His Times (Andre Deutsch, 1974), who sees him as a Fabian and Ethical Socialist; and J. M. Winter, Socialism and the Chal­ lenge of War (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974), who points to the influence of Christianity and Guild Socialism on Tawney. 2. For his revisionism, see his article 'British Socialism Today', in Rita Hinden (ed.), The Radical Tradition (George Allen & Unwin, 1964). Notes 353 3. For Laski and Cripps, see Chapter 8 below. 4. R. H. Tawney, The British Labour Movement (Yale, 1925) pp. 144--5. 5. Published as The Attack and Other Papers (George Allen & Unwin, 1953). 6. R. H. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (pelican Books, 1938 edn) p.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Political Ideas and Movements That Created the Modern World
    harri+b.cov 27/5/03 4:15 pm Page 1 UNDERSTANDINGPOLITICS Understanding RITTEN with the A2 component of the GCE WGovernment and Politics A level in mind, this book is a comprehensive introduction to the political ideas and movements that created the modern world. Underpinned by the work of major thinkers such as Hobbes, Locke, Marx, Mill, Weber and others, the first half of the book looks at core political concepts including the British and European political issues state and sovereignty, the nation, democracy, representation and legitimacy, freedom, equality and rights, obligation and citizenship. The role of ideology in modern politics and society is also discussed. The second half of the book addresses established ideologies such as Conservatism, Liberalism, Socialism, Marxism and Nationalism, before moving on to more recent movements such as Environmentalism and Ecologism, Fascism, and Feminism. The subject is covered in a clear, accessible style, including Understanding a number of student-friendly features, such as chapter summaries, key points to consider, definitions and tips for further sources of information. There is a definite need for a text of this kind. It will be invaluable for students of Government and Politics on introductory courses, whether they be A level candidates or undergraduates. political ideas KEVIN HARRISON IS A LECTURER IN POLITICS AND HISTORY AT MANCHESTER COLLEGE OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY. HE IS ALSO AN ASSOCIATE McNAUGHTON LECTURER IN SOCIAL SCIENCES WITH THE OPEN UNIVERSITY. HE HAS WRITTEN ARTICLES ON POLITICS AND HISTORY AND IS JOINT AUTHOR, WITH TONY BOYD, OF THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION: EVOLUTION OR REVOLUTION? and TONY BOYD WAS FORMERLY HEAD OF GENERAL STUDIES AT XAVERIAN VI FORM COLLEGE, MANCHESTER, WHERE HE TAUGHT POLITICS AND HISTORY.
    [Show full text]
  • 'Opposition-Craft': an Evaluative Framework for Official Opposition Parties in the United Kingdom Edward Henry Lack Submitte
    ‘Opposition-Craft’: An Evaluative Framework for Official Opposition Parties in the United Kingdom Edward Henry Lack Submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of PhD The University of Leeds, School of Politics and International Studies May, 2020 1 Intellectual Property and Publications Statements The candidate confirms that the work submitted is his own and that appropriate credit has been given where reference has been made to the work of others. This copy has been supplied on the understanding that it is copyright material and that no quotation from the thesis may be published without proper acknowledgement. ©2020 The University of Leeds and Edward Henry Lack The right of Edward Henry Lack to be identified as Author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 2 Acknowledgements Page I would like to thank Dr Victoria Honeyman and Dr Timothy Heppell of the School of Politics and International Studies, The University of Leeds, for their support and guidance in the production of this work. I would also like to thank my partner, Dr Ben Ramm and my parents, David and Linden Lack, for their encouragement and belief in my efforts to undertake this project. Finally, I would like to acknowledge those who took part in the research for this PhD thesis: Lord David Steel, Lord David Owen, Lord Chris Smith, Lord Andrew Adonis, Lord David Blunkett and Dame Caroline Spelman. 3 Abstract This thesis offers a distinctive and innovative framework for the study of effective official opposition politics in the United Kingdom.
    [Show full text]
  • Decolonising Knowledge
    DECOLONISING KNOWLEDGE Expand the Black Experience in Britain’s heritage “Drawing on his personal web site Chronicleworld.org and digital and print collection, the author challenges the nation’s information guardians to “detoxify” their knowledge portals” Thomas L Blair Commentaries on the Chronicleworld.org Users value the Thomas L Blair digital collection for its support of “below the radar” unreported communities. Here is what they have to say: Social scientists and researchers at professional associations, such as SOSIG and the UK Intute Science, Engineering and Technology, applaud the Chronicleworld.org web site’s “essays, articles and information about the black urban experience that invite interaction”. Black History Month archived Bernie Grant, Militant Parliamentarian (1944-2000) from the Chronicleworld.org Online journalists at the New York Times on the Web nominate THE CHRONICLE: www.chronicleworld.org as “A biting, well-written zine about black life in Britain” and a useful reference in the Arts, Music and Popular Culture, Technology and Knowledge Networks. Enquirers to UK Directory at ukdirectory.co.uk value the Chronicleworld.org under the headings Race Relations Organisations promoting racial equality, anti- racism and multiculturalism. Library”Govt & Society”Policies & Issues”Race Relations The 100 Great Black Britons www.100greatblackbritons.com cites “Chronicle World - Changing Black Britain as a major resource Magazine addressing the concerns of Black Britons includes a newsgroup and articles on topical events as well as careers, business and the arts. www.chronicleworld.org” Editors at the British TV Channel 4 - Black and Asian History Map call the www.chronicleworld.org “a comprehensive site full of information on the black British presence plus news, current affairs and a rich archive of material”.
    [Show full text]
  • UNIVERSITY of STIRLING Kenneth Pardey the WELFARE of the VISUALLY HANDICAPPED in the UNITED KINGDOM
    UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING Kenneth Pardey THE WELFARE OF THE VISUALLY HANDICAPPED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 'Submitted for the degree of Ph.D. December 1986 II CONTENTS Page Acknowledgements III Abstract v 1. Introduction: The history of the welfare of the visually handicapped in the United Kingdom 1 2. Demographic studies of the visually handicapped 161 3. The Royal National Institute for the Blind 189 4. The history and the contribution of braille, moon and talking books 5. St Dunstan's for the war blinded: A history and a critique ,9, 6. Organisations of the visually handicapped 470 7. Social service-a and rehabilitation 520 8. The elderly person with failing vision 610 9. The education of the visually handicapped 691 10. Employment and disability 748 11. Disability and inco1;-~e 825 Bibliography 870 III Acknowledgements I would like to thank the following people who either agreed to be interviewed or helped me to find some useful sources of information: Colin Low, Martin Milligan, Fred Reid, Hans Cohn, Jim Hughes, Janet Lovall, Jill Dean, Joan Hughes, Doreen Chaney and Elaine Bootman of the National Federation of the Blind; Michael Barrett, Tom Parker, Chris Hynes, Pat O'Grady, Frank Mytton, L. J. Isaac, George Slaughter, J. Nor mile and R. 0. Rayner of the National League of the Blind and Disabled; Donald Bell, Tony Aston, George T. Willson, B. T. Gifford, Neville Lawson and Penelope Shore of the Royal National Institute for the Blind; Timothy Cullinan of the Department of Environmental and Preventive Medicine of the Medical College of St
    [Show full text]
  • Evaluating the Sociology of First Amendment Silence Mae Kuykendall
    Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly Volume 42 Article 3 Number 4 Summer 2015 1-1-2015 Evaluating the Sociology of First Amendment Silence Mae Kuykendall Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/ hastings_constitutional_law_quaterly Part of the Constitutional Law Commons Recommended Citation Mae Kuykendall, Evaluating the Sociology of First Amendment Silence, 42 Hastings Const. L.Q. 695 (2015). Available at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/hastings_constitutional_law_quaterly/vol42/iss4/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly by an authorized editor of UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Evaluating the Sociology of First Amendment Silence by MAE KUYKENDALL* Introduction Silence is that curious answer to the riddle, "What is golden and disappears when you speak its name?" In the context of First Amendment jurisprudence, Silence is just as puzzling as a riddle. Silence may be used as a verb, as in, to cause a speaker to cease speaking or as a noun, as in, the absence of speaking or sound. In either form, Silence has long been recognized as a rhetorical vehicle for expression. As it is wont to do, Silence often sits quietly in the interstices of First Amendment doctrine. But when she speaks, she roars. When Silence becomes speech, and that speech becomes law, Silence can get a thumping for its unseemly intrusion. The thumping of silence as legal doctrine, such as it has been, was a product of the Court's rescue of the Boy Scouts in Boy Scouts of America v.
    [Show full text]
  • The English Catholic New Left: Battling the Religious Establishment and the Politics of the Cold War
    social sciences $€ £ ¥ Article The English Catholic New Left: Battling the Religious Establishment and the Politics of the Cold War Jay P. Corrin College of General Studies, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA; [email protected] Received: 5 March 2018; Accepted: 30 March 2018; Published: 8 April 2018 Abstract: In the 1960s there appeared in England a group of young university educated Catholics who sought to merge radical Catholic social teachings with the ideas of Karl Marx and the latest insights of European and American sociologists and literary theorists. They were known as the English Catholic New Left (ECNL). Under the inspiration of their Dominican mentors, they launched a magazine called Slant that served as the vehicle for publishing their ideas about how Catholic theology along with the Social Gospels fused with neo-Marxism could bring a humanistic socialist revolution to Britain. The Catholic Leftists worked in alliance with the activists of the secular New Left Review to achieve this objective. A major influence on the ECNL was the Marxist Dominican friar Laurence Bright and Herbert McCabe, O. P. Slant took off with great success when Sheed and Ward agreed to publish the journal. Slant featured perceptive, indeed at times brilliant, cutting-edge articles by the Catholic Left’s young Turks, including Terry Eagleton, Martin Redfern, Bernard Sharratt, and Angela and Adrian Cunningham, among others. A major target of the Slant project was the Western Alliance’s Cold War strategy of nuclear deterrence, which they saw to be contrary to Christian just war theory and ultimately destructive of humankind. Another matter of concern for the Slant group was capitalist imperialism that ravaged the underdeveloped world and was a major destabilizing factor for achieving world peace and social equality.
    [Show full text]
  • Fabian Society
    SOS POLITICAL SCIENCE & PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION M.A POLITICAL SCIENCE II SEM POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT, THEORY & CONTEMPORARY IDEOLOGIES UNIT-III Topic Name-fabian socialism WHAT IS MEANT BY FABIAN SOCIALISM? • The Fabian Society is a British socialistorganisation whose purpose is to advance the principles of democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, rather than by revolutionary overthrow WHO STARTED THE FABIAN SOCIETY? • Its nine founding members were Frank Podmore, Edward R. Pease, William Clarke, Hubert Bland, Percival Chubb, Frederick Keddell, H. H. Champion, Edith Nesbit, and Rosamund Dale Owen. WHO IS THE PROPOUNDER OF FABIAN SOCIALISM? • In the period between the two World Wars, the "Second Generation" Fabians, including the writers R. H. Tawney, G. D. H. Cole and Harold Laski, continued to be a major influence on socialistthought. But the general idea is that each man should have power according to his knowledge and capacity. WHAT IS THE FABIAN POLICY? • The Fabian strategy is a military strategy where pitched battles and frontal assaults are avoided in favor of wearing down an opponent through a war of attrition and indirection. While avoiding decisive battles, the side employing this strategy harasses its enemy through skirmishes to cause attrition, disrupt supply and affect morale. Employment of this strategy implies that the side adopting this strategy believes time is on its side, but it may also be adopted when no feasible alternative strategy can be devised. HISTORY • This
    [Show full text]
  • 'The Left's Views on Israel: from the Establishment of the Jewish State To
    ‘The Left’s Views on Israel: From the establishment of the Jewish state to the intifada’ Thesis submitted by June Edmunds for PhD examination at the London School of Economics and Political Science 1 UMI Number: U615796 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Dissertation Publishing UMI U615796 Published by ProQuest LLC 2014. Copyright in the Dissertation held by the Author. Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. ProQuest LLC 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 F 7377 POLITI 58^S8i ABSTRACT The British left has confronted a dilemma in forming its attitude towards Israel in the postwar period. The establishment of the Jewish state seemed to force people on the left to choose between competing nationalisms - Israeli, Arab and later, Palestinian. Over time, a number of key developments sharpened the dilemma. My central focus is the evolution of thinking about Israel and the Middle East in the British Labour Party. I examine four critical periods: the creation of Israel in 1948; the Suez war in 1956; the Arab-Israeli war of 1967 and the 1980s, covering mainly the Israeli invasion of Lebanon but also the intifada. In each case, entrenched attitudes were called into question and longer-term shifts were triggered in the aftermath.
    [Show full text]
  • MARXISM NOW TRADITIONS and DIFFERENCE 30 November-2 December 1989 University of Massachusetts-Amherst
    MARXISM NOW TRADITIONS AND DIFFERENCE 30 November-2 December 1989 University of Massachusetts-Amherst Sponsored by Rethinking MARXISM: A Journal of Economics, CultuNq and Politics Financial support has been provided by the Dean of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the Dean of the School of Humanities and Fine Arts, the Department of Econ- omics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and the Department of Economics at the University of California-Riverside. For additional information, please contact George DeMartino, 413/545-0366, or write to the Association for Economic and Social Analysis, P.O. Box 715, Amherst, MA 01004-0715. PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE Special Events Plenary I: MARXISM AND POLITICAL STRUGGLE FOR THE 1990s (Thursday, 30 November, 7:30 P.M.) MANNINGWLE VICENTE NAVARRO JAMES PETRAS SHEILA ROWBOTHAM Plenary II: MARXISM NOW: TRADITIONS AND DIFFERENCE (Friday, 1 December, 7:30 P.M.) JAMES O’CONNOR GAYATRICHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK CORNEL WEST RICHARD WOLFF Downloaded by [Ohio State University Libraries] at 12:12 04 January 2012 Films: Films concerning Gramsci’s life and work will be shown throughout the Conference, including “Car0 Julka.. .” and “Gramsci: L’ho visto cosi.” Also, “C.L.R. James: A Tribute” will be shown on Thursday, 30 November, at 5:30 p.m., immediately following the panel “C.L.R. James and the Decentering of Western Marxism.” Art: Several contributors to Rethinking MARXISM will have their artworks on exhibit throughout the Conference, including Rudolf Baranik, Louis Camnitzer, Alfred0 Garzbn, Ann Langdon,
    [Show full text]
  • Political Science – I
    Paper code: B.A. LL.B – 110 Subject: Political Science – I Objective: This paper focuses on understanding the basic concepts, theories and functioning of State. The course prepares the student to receive instruction in Constitutional Law and Administrative Law in the context of political forces operative in society. It examines political organization, its principles (State, Law and Sovereignty) and constitutions. UNIT -I: Political Theory a. Introduction i. Political Science: Definition, Aims and Scope ii. State, Government and Law b. Theories of State i. Divine and Force Theory ii. Organic Theory iii. Idealist and Individualist Theory iv. Theory of Social Contract v. Hindu Theory: Contribution of Saptang Theory vi. Islamic Concept of State UNIT -II: Political Ideologies a. Liberalism: Concept, Elements and Criticisms; Types: Classical and Modern b. Totalitarianism: Concept, Elements and Criticisms; Types: Fascism and Nazism c. Socialism: Concept, Elements and Criticisms; Schools of Socialism: Fabianism, Syndicalism and Guild Socialism d. Marxism and Concept of State e. Feminism: Political Dimensions UNIT-III: Machinery of Government a. Constitution: Purpose, Features and classification b. Legislature: Concept, Functions and Types c. Executive: Concept, Functions and Types d. Judiciary: Concepts, Functions, Judicial Review and Independence of Judiciary e. Separation of Powers f. Political Processes UNIT- IV: Sovereignty and Citizenship a. Sovereignty: Definition and Types (Political, Popular and Legal) b. Rights: Concept and Types (Focus on Fundamental and Human Rights) c. Duties: Concept and Types d. Political Thinkers: Plato’s Justice; Aristotle on Government and Citizenship; John Rawls on Distributive Justice; Gandhi’s Concept of State and Swaraj ; Nehruvian Socialism; Jai Prakash Narain’s Total Revolution UNIT I: POLITICAL THEORY a.
    [Show full text]
  • Prologue to a Biography
    Notes Preface and Acknowledgements 1. R. Skidelsky, ‘Introduction’, John Maynard Keynes, Vol. 3: Fighting for Britain 1937–1946 (Macmillan Papermac, 2000), p. xxii. 1 The Caribbean in Turmoil: Prologue to a Biography 1. Lewis Archive, Princeton, Box 1/10; ‘Autobiographical Account’ by Sir Arthur Lewis, prepared for Nobel Prize Committee, December 1979, p. 4. 2. Lewis (1939), p. 5. In the 1920s, the white population in St Lucia and on average across the islands, was relatively low, at about 3 per cent of the population. The proportion was higher than this on islands completely dominated by sugar cultivation, such as Barbados. 3. Lewis (1939), p. 7. On the significance of colour gradations in the social and power structures of the West Indies, see ‘The Light and the Dark’, ch.4 in James (1963) and Tignor (2005) notes: ‘In place of the rigid two-tiered racial system, there had appeared a coloured middle class … usually light skinned, well educated, professional and urban … To this generation, Lewis … belonged’ (p.11). 4. Lewis (1939), p. 5. 5. Lewis (1939), p. 9. 6. The total value of exports from St Lucia fell from £421,000 (£8.10 per cap- ita) to £207,000 (£3.91) between 1920 and 1925, and to £143,000 (£2.65) by 1930 (Armitage-Smith, 1931, p. 62). 7. These data derive from Sir Sydney Armitage-Smith’s financial mission to the Leeward Islands and St Lucia in the depths of the depression in 1931 – undertaken while Lewis was serving time in the Agricultural Department office waiting to sit his scholarship exam.
    [Show full text]
  • The Power of the Prime Minister
    Research Paper Research The Power of the Prime Minister 50 Years On George Jones THE POWER OF THE PRIME MINISTER 50 YEARS ON George Jones Emeritus Professor of Government London School of Economics & Political Science for The Constitution Society Based on a lecture for the Institute of Contemporary British History, King’s College, London, 8 February 2016 First published in Great Britain in 2016 by The Constitution Society Top Floor, 61 Petty France London SW1H 9EU www.consoc.org.uk © The Constitution Society ISBN: 978-0-9954703-1-6 © George Jones 2016. All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the publisher of this book. THE POWER OF THE PRIME MINISTER 3 Contents About the Author 4 Foreword 5 Introduction 9 Contingencies and Resource Dependency 11 The Formal Remit and Amorphous Convention 13 Key Stages in the Historical Development of the Premiership 15 Biographies of Prime Ministers are Not Enough 16 Harold Wilson 17 Tony Blair – almost a PM’s Department 19 David Cameron – with a department in all but name 21 Hung Parliament and Coalition Government 22 Fixed-term Parliaments Act, 2011 25 Party Dynamics 26 Wilson and Cameron Compared 29 Enhancing the Prime Minister 37 Between Wilson and Cameron 38 Conclusions 39 4 THE POWER OF THE PRIME MINISTER About the Author George Jones has from 2003 been Emeritus Professor of Government at LSE where he was Professor of Government between 1976 and 2003.
    [Show full text]