LETTERS
Arnold, G.L. & Michigan, J.R.H.
Since you have been good enough to announce the publication (in an abbreviated form) of a recent paper of mine on collectivism (see page 305) , I hesitate to take up more of your space, but...
...Plastrik's comment, on the other hand, while stressing the "managerial" approach of Mr...
...Whether it would in the short run promote greater equality or welfare is surely a secondary consideration...
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...This also answers his point about the need for Labor to become the "national" party...
...It is also the main issue which socialist theory is called upon to face...
...It can of course do so only if it is able to convince the electorate (and especially the growing managerial stratum) that planning is really in the national interest...
...Many Like This I am very happy with the material you have thus far published and I consider such an organ of opinion essential to the furtherance of socialist thought...
...This ties up with the point I made before: Labor came closest to being the "na tional" party (and also garnered the largest number of votes, relative to the Conservatives and Liberals) at a time when it was able to impress the middleclass electorate with the importance of "planning" to solve the national problem, which is one of economic stagnation in the key industries...
...If it is possible to get back issues, I would appreciate the prices and numbers you still have...
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...That it would do so in the long run follows from the assumption—which liberals cannot be exCORRECTION...
...Our apologies to E. V. Walter and our readers...
...I am in agreement with my old friend W. J. Newman when he suggests that the Labor Party's troubles are in part due to an oldfashioned hankering after plain class alignments, and he is of course quite right to draw attention to recent literaturc on the subject of working-class support for Conservatism...
...The personality of Cripps had much to do with the Party's prestige in those years...
...As long as socialists regard the planning of the national economy as the center-piece of their program, they will be at odds with people who place "welfare" or "equality" first...
...Since you have been good enough to announce the publication (in an abbreviated form) of a recent paper of mine on collectivism (see page 305) , I hesitate to take up more of your space, but the discussion of current British politics in your Summer 1955 issue prompts one or two critical reflections...
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...The loss of votes, incidentally, took place after that date, and the 1955 total was still above that of 1945...
...But apart from the fact that he leans a little too heavily on liberal writers who would like the Labor Party to drop socialism altogether, there is an issue to which he does not pay sufficient attention: the liberal-socialist cleavage over planning...
...In fact the real issue in British politics, and within the Labor Party, is precisely this, although the Bevanite rumpus has steadily distracted attention from it...
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...If complete issues are impossible to get, then I would like to know whether or not a reprint of C. Wright Mills' article in Vol...
...On page 255, the top paragraph of E. V. Walter's article "The Chimera of Conservatism" in our last issue, a line was inadvertently repeated, displacing the following: "If this is an example of how according to Rossiter) the Conservative...
...It may even be suggested that managerial leadership has the same significance for the labor movement as middle-class leadership had for the old democratic movement, whose following was largely composed of peasant-farmers and shopkeepers...
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...When one considers that Aneurin Bevan was his ally in the 1945-50 Cabinet, one catches a glimpse of the political mechanism whereby "laborite" and "managerial" elements can be synthesized at a higher level...
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...Gaitskell's ineffectiveness as Chancellor was largely responsible for the defeatist mood in which the Party entered the crucial election of 1951, since when it has been on the decline...
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...The question is how the labor movement's drive for greater social equality can be placed behind a planning program which makes sense to the managerial element, and to the electorate generally...
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...Conversely, the growth of such a conviction would automatically resolve the now seemingly insoluble problem of bridging the gap between the working class and the professional middle class...
...petted to share—that a planned economy can, and an unplanned one cannot, cope with the pressing economic problems of a highly industrialized country such as Britain...
...To the extent that back issues become available, we will fill our readers' req uests—Enrroxs...
...In such a scheme—which incidentally fits equally well into the Marxian and the Schumpeterian system of social categories and may therefore be described as sociologically neutral—the relevant issue is not one of choice between oldfashioned working-class socialism a la Keir Hardie, and modern, up-to-date, neo-liberalism a la Keynes...
...It is because the British discussion tends to turn on these alleged alternatives that it threatens to become sterile...
...Gaitskell's friends, omits to point out that Mr...
Vol. 2 • September 1955 • No. 4
