The Essential Left
Reviewed by Cliff Slaughter
1961Labour ReviewCliff Slaughter Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: words can be misread, and the end of one piece can run into the next. For anything you quote, read the scan.
[p026] The Essential Left. Unwin, 7s. 6d. George Allen & From the Kremlin to Transport House via the Partisan Coffee Bar, people will tell you that the world has changed since Marx’s time, that Engels is dead and Lenin embalmed. But amid the rising flood of paper- backs engulfing our bookshops today, the writings re-issued in this volume have a greater significance for the 1960s than a hundred productions of the newest of new thinkers. This excellently produced book contains four of the basic texts of Socialism: ‘The Communist Mani- festo’, ‘Value, Price and Profit’, “Socialism, Utopian and Scientific’, and ‘The State and Revolution’. The analyses of class society, of haw capitalist exploitation works, of the socialist solution to man’s problems, of the nature of the state before and after workers’ revolution—these are the ideas with which to grasp the events of today. Gripping the minds of millions, these principles will shake the world. Every young comrade should buy . stories, by a LABOUR REVIEW—Spring, 1961 this book. It will serve him well in the stormy days ahead. CS. Red Cavalry Penguin, 3s. 6d.