That can only mean that he didn't receive the November 2005 issue of the Socialist Standard that I sent him by recorded delivery a few months back.
I wonder if Alan Woods was pissed off when he heard the news? I bet he muttered under his breath: "It should have been 'Reason in Revolt' that he was holding up on that podium".
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"Reason in Revolt" has to be one of the worst political books I've ever not bothered reading as much has half of it of. And that sentence makes about as much sense as the content. Socialist Appeal used to give it to people they'd just bumped into, under the impression it would make quick recruits. Along with a duplicated copy of "Problems of Entryism" (anon., by T.Grant, first published ca. 1959).
I never read it, but I just remember that Dave from From Despair To Where always spoke really highly of it.
I was always bumping into Socialist Appeal at demos - well a nice young bloke from Scotland - and he never passed me on a gratis copy. Bastard.
I'd never get a gratis copy either. Not after they hadn't recruited me (apart from to the Labour Party, that is, despite me saying "well actually I'm a communist, but there's nobody else round here, is there", they didn't reveal what they supposedly really thought) that is. And by the time they "came out" (playing the role of "Militant stereotypes in the early 1980s" complaining about the 'trendy left' wasting their time on 'middle-class issues' like 'racism, feminism and gay rights') I could almost already say, "oh yeah, them, I mean, us - can I swap our paper for one of your rather boring journals"....
Needless to say, I never got as far as being invited to a curry with "Ted" on Brick Lane, which was the usual final stage of recruitment in the mid-90s. I kept my distance after experiencing the "go to Rob Sewell's house and be told for hours and end about the achievements of Liverpool City Council as led by Hatton" part. I can't say I was sorry. Every conversation with their members soon led on to complaints about "feminism" and "gays". Without anyone else ever mentioning these, or remotely related issues. You could tell immediately they were neither politically interesting, nor fun to be with, this grouplet.
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