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17:43, 9 January 2024 Kingsbridge Arms Bus Stop Newsletters 1-3 .pdf (file) 13.03 MB 3 issues of the ''Kingsbridge Arms Bus Stop Newsletters 1-3 plus historical comment. 1
17:28, 19 June 2022 Niebsch Arndt 2013 Ether Machines Raoul Hausmanns Optophonetic Media.pdf (file) 151 KB An account of Raoul Hausmann’s Optophonetic Media 1
21:09, 28 August 2020 Vucinich Alexander 1976 A Blend of Marxism and Neo-Positivism A A Bogdanov.pdf (file) 18.17 MB CHapter from Vucinich's 1976 book ''Social Thought in Tsarist Russia'' entitled A Blend of Marxism and Neo-Positivism: Alexander Bogdanov 1
15:09, 28 July 2020 F. Tompsett (2019) Alexander Bogdanov and Independent Working-Class Education (PSE 95).pdf (file) 39 KB After many years in obscurity, the name of the Russian political activist Alexander Bogdanov (1873-1928) is starting to achieve the sort of recognition it deserves. At the time of the split between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks, he was a prominent Bolshevik who perhaps rivalled Lenin in reputation. However, from the start, Bogdanov was developing a different approach from Lenin: an approach which envisaged a revolutionary movement growing out of the development of advanced workers by thei... 1
14:45, 28 July 2020 F. Tompsett (2017) The IWW and the Plebs League (PSE 87).pdf (file) 34 KB My viewpoint will be more sympathetic to syndicalism (or industrial unionism, if you prefer) and will argue that the development of the Plebs League/ Labour College was an important factor in developing not just the political maturity of the working class but more generally their access to independent working- class education. Indeed, I will argue that this perspective can be better understood in relation to two movements internationally. In this the first article, I shall look at the Industr... 1
12:22, 26 July 2020 Tompsett Fabian 2017 Proletcult IWCE and the Russian Revolution.pdf (file) 55 KB This article is a continuation of a previous one, ‘The IWW and the Plebs League’, which appeared in PSE 87. That article discussed links between the development of the Plebs League and the IWW. Here we continue the theme of developing an international perspective in our understanding of Independent Working-Class Education by looking at the work of Alexander Bogdanov (1873-1928) and the Proletkult movement which emerged following the February 1917 Revolution. We will then examine how Eden and... 1
16:41, 31 October 2015 Tompsett Fabian 2015 Encyclopedism for Development.pdf (file) 1.69 MB Otto Neurath (1882-1945) developed the approach of encyclopedism as an important tool to achieve the Unity of Science. This is examined in terms of his long term commitment to socialism and international development, understood as a decentralised econ... 1