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August 2010 Socialist Standard

August 2010 Socialist Standard

Editorial

Is unemployment really the problem?

Regular Columns

Pathfinders Meat Into Veg

Cooking the Books 1 The problem with capitalism

Cooking the Books 2 Economic soothsaying

Material World Waste and Want: Grapes of Wrath revisited

Greasy Pole You're Nicked

Pieces Together Workers Waking Up; A Lost Tribe Indeed; Profitable Carnage; Capitalism in Action

50 Years Ago The Passing of a Labour Leader

Main Articles

NHS: short-term prescriptions For Tories, liberty means the freedom first and foremost to make money.

Communist Camp What communism has in common with a row of tents.

Marx and the Ideology of Darwinism Marx admired Darwin’s work but was critical of some of the conclusions drawn from it. The second of our three-part article on Marx and Engels and Darwin.

Land Grab: win-win or win-lose? Corporate self-regulation or total system change?

Conversation with a hairdresser’s assistant Uncomplicated Marxian economics by Wilhelm Reich, author of The Sexual Revolution.

Letters, Book Reviews, Meetings & Obituary

Letters to the Editors: Withering away of money?; Declining rate of profit?; Capital – difficult?

Book Reviews: Hopes and Prospects by Noam Chomsky; Chinese Whispers by Hsiao-Hung Pai; Socialism or Barbarism. From the 'American Century' to the Crossroads by Istvan Meszaros; Africa’s Liberation. The Legacy of Nyerere edited by Chambi Chachage and Annar Cassam

Socialist Party Meetings: Clapham & Norwich:

Obituary: Friedrich Vogt

Voice From The Back

The arrogance of the capitalist class; What recession?; Let ‘em fly copters; The silent spillage; Stop Moaning. Work Harder

Gnome Chomsky

A festivus present for the anarcho-reformist in your life this choming Christmas:

Place it in their returned garden of eden. Possibly next to a hitchens post. (Now that would have been something.)

Popbitch provides more details for the must have anarcho-consumerist ornament for next year's ten year anniversary of the guerrilla gardening spectacle in Parliament Square.

PS - Whilst I'm on matters Chomsky; What's with 'Noam Chomsky' plus 'broken english' all of a sudden? What does my sitemeter know that I don't?

PPS - The same company would also like to interest you in a Monkish Howard Zinn for good measure:

What do you mean you don't have 134 dollars going spare?

Industrial Worker interviews Noam Chomsky

Spotted over at Mind Glow blog:

The editor of the Industrial Worker, Diane Krauthamer, spoke to Noam Chomsky at his MIT office in Cambridge, MA, on October 9th, 2009.
The Industrial Worker is the official newspaper of the IWW (the Industrial Workers of the World), a radical union.

For more info, please visit: The IWW official website

http://www.iww.org

The interview is in 4 parts on YouTube:

Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRlbLETWLwo

Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y673_j2x_g

Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttqwp30lKCc

Part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67k4EgRT-ak

A word of warning; I found the sound in the videos a bit spotty but that may just be me. An interesting enough interview with Chomsky discussing the revival of sit down strikes, his father's 'membership' of the IWW and the rise of the populist right, amongst other things.

Hat tip to Jason for the links.

Latest on Chomsky

In his office . . . at MIT . . . sucking on a polo mint . . . searching in vain to find a clip of Willie Donachie scoring a spectacular own goal for Scotland against Wales in a 1978 Home Championship International on YouTube.

Unfortunately, he doesn't find the clip he wants but he does stumble across this gobbet of Gordon Legge from the blog - where Legge mentions Donachie's said own goal in a short story - and he proceeds to rifle around the top drawer of his desk to see if he still has that Barnes and Noble gift card that Howard Zinn sent him last birthday.

The book looks good, and if he can get it second hand, he'll have enough left over on the gift card to also purchase a second hand copy of Colin Shindler's 'Manchester United Ruined My Life'. he feels it's time to look back on the good bad times when Man City used to be a football club.

Footnotes. FOOTNOTES. It's a post on Chomsky, so there must be footnotes . . . even if they're made up. (No, that isn't a sly dig on 'The Chom' before someone - ANYONE - write in.

*Chomsky looking for the Donachie own goal was probably prompted by this blog on classic own goals in today's Guardian.

**I thought I'd label the screen grab as 'Chomsky + own goal', so the blog will probably be getting its first visit from Little Green Footballers once the google alert goes viral.

***'The Chom' Made that one up myself. If Hitchens can be *involuntary vomit* cited as 'The Dude', then Uncle Noam can be now be known as 'The Chom'. What does it matter if it sounds like a chocolate bar? Probably just means I'm hungry.

****Proof read posts before posting. Then your hershey bar will taste better.

Don't forget to click to enlarge . . . as the blogger said to the reader of the blog.

Never let it be said that this blog misses out in the opportunity in signposting Noam Chomsky appearing in a cartoon strip.

No jokes about the real life Chomsky being a cartoon character, please. That gibe is for the self-satisfied over at Harry's Place.

I just like to spot *cough* public intellectuals in the most unlikeliest of places. It also takes me back to the good old days of avidly reading Roy and the Rovers every week, and the genuine thrill of that storyline where A J Ayer turned up in the pages of the comic face to face with Roy Race. Something about Ayer being the leader of a Spurs hooligan gang who decided to invade the pitch in a FA Cup sixth round replay to try and get the game abandoned after Melchester Rovers went 3-1 up with five minutes to go. I can't remember how it resolved itself - mind, it was a storyline from 30 years ago - but I suspect that 'Blackie' Gray despatched Ayer with a kick to the nether regions and the rest of the Spurs hooligan crew melted back into the terraces. That's how those cliffhangers usually got wrapped up if memory serves me right. If you see the particular issue on eBay, drop me a line. I'd like to read it again

The Chomsky cartoon? From the pen of Mitch Clem. His cartoon strips aren't really that political which it makes it all the funnier when Chomsky pops in from an alternate universe to make a guest appearance as this week's curmudgeon.

When Chomsky met Hitchens

Via Postmodern Haircut

Also check out:

The Chomsky/Nader smackdown.

The future's so bright, Noam has to wear his bifocals.

Chomsky uses Wordpress.

Chomsky moonlighting.

Chomsky is board with the struggle.

Grumpy Old Men

Still got the worst case of bloggers block imaginable.

I find it hard to believe that I've run out of bad jokes. I'll be falling back on posting multiple YouTube clips next. I just wish I had the blogging bottle to press the delete button, but I know I'd only end up regretting it ten minutes after sending the blog into oblivion.

Thankfully the unofficial Socialist Standard page on MySpace is still ticking over. Amazingly good day for the page yesterday via a will-o'-the-wisp post on Ron Paul and Noam Chomsky.

Give the people what they want.