YOUR first article on "Marxist theory and the British labour movement' (23 November) conveniently invented its own tradition of an anti-intellectual, parochial reformism which counterpose to the amarist neory waien you presum ably have up your sleeve to educate us By collecting quotations at random socialist arrogantly dismisses the complexity and richness of the movements which Willam Thompson, Kate Barmby, to name Robert Owen, Ernest Jones, Eleanor Marx, Isabella Ford, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, Hannah Mitchell, Noah Sylvia Pankhurst.
Against Ben Tillett there was also a strong strand of internationalism in the Independent Labour Party. For слатріс, Anic Davison, a clasgow socialist Jean McCrindle mcivicwcam baurul Daugnters remembered one of the precepts her ILP Socialist Sunday School as saying: "Do not think that those who love their own country must hate and despise other nations or wish for war whích are the remnants Da Bales The writer of the article talks about lack of theory affecting 'even those altempting to be revolutionaries". Your use of even implies Marxist theoreticians avoid the errors of 'common sense' In reality, Marxist theory guarantee against all kinds of blind spots, wate won't take us all the way it is not to be As for your even' in relation to the early Communist Party, I don't know enough to be sure anti-intellectual, but if it was, what? It was a tiny part of a much larger movement. It doesn't that all those Plebs readers. Ruskin College students, Glasgow political Publication on the NORTH WEST WARRINGTON socialist ing long regulariy. Ring GREATER MANCHESTER Socialist Challenge. School students support the paper and would like to get Manchester SC Centre, 14 Piccadilly Centre c/o 14 Piccadilly, Manchester with a view to orming a saltora se NORTH EAST NEWCASTLE 49007 Socialist Challenge 4 January 1979 Page 14 the difference ana-incory anG dismiss you disembodied creating a movement life rather than which Theory.
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E8 Tom Maguire, Ablett, and groups, members of the Herald League, the left ILPers, the Society for of Sex Psychology, and Pete Socialist Sunday Schools were insular Perhaps you might have explained between being being against strikes, blinkered middle class theorists who experience. An understandable antagonism to the latter has given rise to a crumpled form of class consciousness which it is wiser for socialists to respond to by which uses Marxism as a means of seeing beyond the limits of our own experiences of asserting *Correct writers Marxist education series in Socialist Challenge are not exempt from such SHEILA ROWBOTHAM [London get By can no way ren uson une sale to