[Marxism] A communist and a gentleman

[Paddy Apling]

A PS to my previous message - I should have said - in relation to the Tom 
Driberg biography, that, my particular interest was because I had been 
involved in some of the episodes described.  Tom Driberg has been one of the 
very few MPs or other Labour politicians who had made some effort to help us 
during the Ilford Council Tenants Rent Strike in 1956.  Some of us had entry 
tickets from Tom for the House of Commons debate - and we nearly got thrown 
out during its proceedings because of all the booing we made at other MPs. 
No actual mention by Francis Whelan, but he uses plenty of other examples of 
how a determined MP, as Tom Driberg was,  can do something to help ordinary 
people in their struggles with the powers-that-be.  For anyone in struggle 
it has been the experience over the last 60 years, if not longer, that the 
number of elected "representatives" , whatever their party label, who 
actually try to support those in struggle can usually be counted on the 
fingers of one hand.

The real problem of democracy that we have to contend with is how to change 
this for the better !!
Talk of how to achieve socialism is really far off from present realty.... 
First we have to win the battle of democracy - REAL representation of the 
people !!   I feel Francis Whelan is on our side in the battle of ideas.....

Paddy
http://apling.freeservers.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Einde O'Callaghan" <eindeoc at googlemail.com>
To: <e.c.apling at btinternet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Marxism] A communist and a gentleman


> Louis Proyect wrote:
>> farmelantj at juno.com wrote:
>>> That's how Wikipedia describes him.
>>> See:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Wheen
>>>
>>
>> I have Wheen's biography of Marx but have not gotten around to reading
>> it. I suppose that I am procrastinating in light of the following
>> excerpt from the wiki:
>>
> It is nevertheless well worth reading.
>
> Einde O'Callaghan
>
>
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