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This selection of audio files was first made available by Darren
O'Neil on his Blog.
Talks from the 1982 'Socialist Thinkers – People Who History Made'
lecture series.
The speaker/lecturer is Steve Coleman, the socialist thinker under
discussion is Ernest Belfort Bax.
Down
the years, Bax is someone who has been pretty much written out of the
history of the nineteenth century British Socialist Movement.
Whilst
Hyndman is always on hand to take on the role of the Victorian villain
for the failure of the Marxist Left in Britain for not fully
integrating into the wider Labour Movement, and William Morris gets
rediscovered every generation via a new biography and/or a new
exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Bax, who was a comparable
heavyweight figure in the Social Democratic Federation in the 1880s and
was a major player - alongside Morris, Aveling and Eleanor Marx - in
the Socialist League split from the SDF in 1885, if he is known at all,
is best known these days for his virulent anti-feminism in the latter
years of his political life, and his capitulation to British chauvinism
at the outbreak of the First World War.
The Historical Place of the SPGB'
First Part
DOWNLOAD LINK: The Historical
Place of
the SPGB
FILE NAME: 01 Historical Place (Part 1).mp3
FILE SIZE: ~58.31 megabytes
LENGTH: 1:03:13
Second Part
DOWNLOAD LINK: The Historical
Place of
the SPGB
FILE NAME: 02 Historical Place (Part 2).mp3
FILE SIZE: ~51.39 megabytes
LENGTH: 55:42
1854 – 1925
Further Reading on Ernest Belfort Bax:
First Part
DOWNLOAD LINK: Belfort
Bax and the "Ethics of Socialism"
FILE NAME: 02 Belfort Bax and the Ethics of Socialism Part 1.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~59.47 megabytes
LENGTH:1:04:33
Second Part
DOWNLOAD LINK: Belfort
Bax and the "Ethics of Socialism"
FILE NAME: 01 Belfort Bax and the Ethics of Socialism part 2.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~41.88 megabytes
LENGTH: 56:01
1854 - 1938
Further Reading on Karl Kautsky:
Karl Kautsky and
the Socialist Critique of Religion
1834 - 1896
Further Reading on William Morris:
1828-1888
Further Reading on Dietzgen:
Joseph Dietzgen
and Dialectical Thought
Another talk from the
1982 'Socialist Thinkers – People Who History Made' lecture
series and, again, the speaker is Steve Coleman:
First Part
DOWNLOAD LINK: Dietzgen and
Dialectical
Thought
FILE NAME: 01 Steve Coleman Dietzgen Part One.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~53.24 megabytes
LENGTH:57:47
Second Part
DOWNLOAD LINK: Dietzgen
and Dialectical
Thought
FILE NAME: 01 Dietzgen Part Two.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~48.46 megabytes
LENGTH: 52:36
Debates
A debate between David Senior, (Conservative Party) and Clifford Slapper, (SPGB), held on 26/07/1995
at Conway Hall.
Debate
DOWNLOAD LINK:
Capitalism
or Socialism part 1
FILE NAME: Debate -
Capitalism or Socialism 26-07-1995 pt.1.mp3
DOWNLOAD LINK: Capitalism or Socialism part 2
FILE NAME: Debate - Capitalism or
Socialism 26-07-1995 pt.2.mp3
Debates
A debate between Steve Coleman and Labour Party member
Laurence Spigel, recorded on 4th April 1985 at The Prince Albert,
Islington.
Debates
DOWNLOAD LINK: What is Socialism and How Can It Be Achieved part1
FILE NAME: Debate - What is
Socialism and How Can It Be Achieved 04-04-1985 pt1.mp3
DOWNLOAD LINK: What is Socialism and How Can It Be Achieved part 2
FILE NAME: Debate - What is
Socialism and How Can It Be Achieved 04-04-1985 pt2.mp3
Anarchy and Socialism
Anarchy
and Socialism
All strands of anarchist thought, tend
to see the source of
human oppression and exploitation in external authority in general and
the state in particular. Socialists, on the other hand, see oppression
and exploitation in the social relationships of capitalism (which
includes the state).
DOWNLOAD LINK: A_Marxist_Critique_of_Anarchism
FILE NAME: A Marxist
Critique of Anarchism.mp3
Is
a Third World War Inevitable ?
It's in two parts - the first is Steve Coleman's talk, and the 2nd contains the discussion plus a 3 minute interview the next day on local radio. It's been converted from tape cassette, so the sound
quality isn't ideal but it's perfectly listenable
Is a Third World War Inevitable ?
DOWNLOAD LINK: Is a 3rd world war inevitable part1?
FILE NAME Is a 3rd World War Inevitable' - Steve Coleman 31-07-1980 pt.1.MP3
DOWNLOAD LINK :Is a 3rd World War Inevitable part 2
FILE NAME 'Is a 3rd World War Inevitable' - Steve Coleman 31-07-1980 pt.2.MP3
Edgar Hardcastle
1900-1995
Further Reading on Hardy :
Hardy
Talks
The son of a founding member of the
SPGB, Hardy joined the party in
1922. He studied at the LSE and did considerable work on political
economy, in particular a Marxist critique of Keynes and other work on
political economy.
The talks date from the early eighties -
when Edgar Hardcastle, himself, was in his early eighties, and I'm
pretty
certain that these Economics Education classes were organised by the
old Islington Branch of the SPGB.
Hardcastle was in his early eighties when he gave the talks. As his
obituary outlines, he was the:
".
. . son of a founder member, he went to prison as a socialist
conscientious objector in the First World War, formally joining the
Party in 1922. After studying at the London School of Economics under
Professor Edwin Cannan he worked all his life as a researcher in the
trade union movement, first for the Agriculture Workers Union, then for
a short while for the international trade union movement in Brussels,
then till his retirement for the Post Office workers' union where he
was chief adviser to a succession of UPW General Secretaries."
He served on the Editorial Committee of the Socialist
Standard for over forty years, and represented the SPGB on many
occasions in debate. His pen name, when writing articles for the
Standard, was 'H', and when he spoke for the Party he was listed as
'Hardy' in the meetings pages of the Standard.
The use of 'H' as
a pen name dates from time in the SPGB's publishing history when the
overwhelming majority of Party writers would sign their articles with
either their initials or with a pseudonym. I can only guess that he
used the Party name of 'Hardy' when speaking for the SPGB because of
work commitments.
To give some sense of the span of his political
life, speaking as a representative of the SPGB, he debated an Economic
League speaker in 1927; a New Party speaker in 1931; Dr Edward Conze
(speaking on behalf of the Labour Party) in 1937; Sir Keith Joseph
in 1975; Arthur
Seldon in 1981; Paul
Hirst in 1983; and Kelvin Hopkins
in 1988. (That's from an incomplete wiki list here.)
E. Hardy
on Crises And Depressions
First Part
DOWNLOAD LINK: Crisis and
Depressions
(Part 1)
FILE NAME: 27 Crises And Depressions.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~58.16 MB megabytes
LENGTH: 1:03:05
Second Part
DOWNLOAD LINK: Crisis
and Depressions
(Part 2)
FILE NAME: 28 Crises And Depressions - Part Two.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~50.87 MB megabytes
LENGTH: 55:11
E. Hardy's
lecture on the Labour Theory of Value
The second economics lecture from Edgar Hardcastle:
First Part
DOWNLOAD LINK: Labour
Theory of Value
(Part 1)
FILE NAME: 12 Labour Theory of Value.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~59.58 MB megabytes
LENGTH: 1:04:40
Second Part
DOWNLOAD LINK: Labour
Theory of Value
(Part 2)
FILE NAME: 13 Labour Theory of Value - Part Two.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~33.49 MB megabytes
LENGTH: 36:21
E. Hardy's
lecture on Rent, Interest and Profit
The third economics lecture from Edgar Hardcastle:
First Part
DOWNLOAD LINK: Rent,
Interest and Profit
(Part 1)
FILE NAME: 04 Rent, Interest And Profit.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~57.81 MB megabytes
LENGTH: 1:02:43
Second Part
DOWNLOAD LINK: Rent,
Interest and Profit
(Part 2)
FILE NAME: 05 Rent, Interest And Profit.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~38.25 MB megabytes
LENGTH: 41:29
E. Hardy's
lecture on Productivity
The fourth economics lecture from Edgar Hardcastle:
First Part
DOWNLOAD LINK: Productivity (Part 1)
FILE NAME: 43 Productivity.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~56.15 MB megabytes
LENGTH: 1:00:55
Second Part
DOWNLOAD LINK: Productivity
(Part 2)
FILE NAME: Productivity - Part Two.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~15.28 MB megabytes
LENGTH: 16:39
E. Hardy's
lecture on Monetarism
The final lecture from Edgar Hardcastle's series of
talks on economics:
First Part
DOWNLOAD LINK: Monetarism (Part 1)
FILE NAME: 02 Monetarism.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~58.36 MB megabytes
LENGTH: 1:03:21
Second Part
DOWNLOAD LINK: Monetarism
(Part 2)
FILE NAME: 03 Monetarism - Part Two.mp3
FILE SIZE: ~ 48.76 MB megabytes
LENGTH: 52:54
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