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From International Socialism, No.19, Winter 1964/5, p.28.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
Great Britain or Little England
John Mander
Penguin, 3s. 6d.
The ‘West’ is going soft on the commies. The ‘liberal’ intelligentsia are the duped mouthpieces of Stalinism. CND can barely disguise itself as a communist front. Heard all this before? Well, if you go in for political nostalgia and a touch of ideological masochism you can read it all again in Mr. Mander’s latest and most bilious outburst about the state of ‘democracy’. A Labour ‘leftist’ at Cambridge some 12 years ago, Mr. Mander has long since seen the light and these days he does his bit exposing the sinister plots of intellectual Stalinism in the columns of Encounter. His analysis of the political crisis of capitalism is so superficial that it is already startlingly outdated. He even recommends Britain joining the Common Market as an essential precondition of ‘finding a role’ in the modern world. This is a book full of frustration and spleen. It is also a bore.
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