CRITIQUE CONFERENCE MARX AFTER STALIN

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for Women's Liberation and Socialism. Displays, films and Friday. 4 March 1983, 7.00pm County Hall, London SE1 (Waterloo Tube)

Socialist Challenge, 25 February 1983. page 8 If this rather mechanistic argument was correct then it would apply to the existing system for partie vhich had a chance of win ning power.

True the Liberal Party community-based campaign of sorts. But, , on the other hand, the SDP tried catapult itself into power through the mass media. ignoring the long tiring process building up mass And as the prospect of another majority Labour government waned from 1979 to 1982 CHLOVI CH itself automatically comDerer to turn to the masses?

Of course not. Tariq's PR world is just as likely to razzle-dazzle than genuine campaigns and mass action. PR is no shortcut politics.

Notably, Tariq fails to specil which system of PR he advocates: STV, the list system, the additional member Every system of PR has defects but he can avoid these pro blems by failing to nail his colours to tne mast. it Is surely a bit cavalier to con10888318221 Friday 4th March: 7.30pm -Saturday 5ch March:

11.45am -in Marxism' 2.00pm5.15pmMarxism after Stalinism - Hillel Ticktin, Nigel Harris et al.

10.00am - Stalinism, Historical Materialism and Marxist method - Chris Arthur, Scott Meikle. Jonathan Rée Workshops: Scott Meikle "Stalinist method and the alternative': David H. Ruben The Nature of Historical Materialist Explanation'; Chris Arthur "Stalinism and Dialectics"; Norman Geras "Marx and human nature': Roy Edgley The problem of violence'; Simon Clarke 'Idealism and materialism Workshops: Bob Sutcliffe Marxism, Stalinism and underdevelopment"; Mike Davies 'Marxism in America': Baruch Hirson 'Marxism and the National Question': Middle East forum on What a Nationalist Party has borrowed from the Stalinist model - a case study': Neil Harding "Lenin's Marxism and its legacy on the Soviet state': David Law "Trotsky's Marxism': Paddy O'Donnell "Marxism. Stalinism and psychology': Sandy Smith 'Planning after Stalin'; Kate Marshall Feminism or Marxism?' Plenary: Open forum on the 'USSR in the World System'.

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