“Men who hurt Women are my favorite men to kill. Touch her and I'll send you straight to hell - with a smile on my face!” Nicholas Kenleigh Book:Ride the Fire Source: Ride the Fire
“Aye, I can.” He pressed his hand against her belly above her womb. “I love you, Bethie Stewart. Any child you conceive of me will be born of that love. You’ll be a light to our children, as you are a light to Belle—as you are a light to me.” She looked into his eyes, saw the full force of his feelings revealed there, felt as if her heart were singing. He loved her . Oh, how she had longed to hear those precious words! And yet . . . “I dinnae know if our love will be enough.” “It will be more than enough.” Then he covered her mouth with his, and she forgot everything but him.” Nicholas Kenleigh Book:Ride the Fire Source: Ride the Fire
“The Socialist Party had a slight, sympathetic contact with the Bolsheviks. In March, 1915, the Socialist Standard had on its front page a statement headed A RUSSIAN CHALLENGE. The Russian party, finding itself uninvited to a London conference of social-democrtic parties of the Allied nations,sent a declaration which every left-wing paper refused to publish before it was recieved by the SPGB...the statement condemned the war and the 'monstrous crime against socialism' of the labour leaders who had entered war governments.” BolsheviksLeninSpgb Author:Robert Barltrop
“The Party's Object...' The establishment of a system of society based upon the common ownership and democratic control of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth by and in the interests of the whole community'......was precise and legalistic. Correctness of definition and theory was all-important: in the minds of the men of new party, the failures of the existing organisations were simply the fruits of false theories. For the same reason, the Object did not mention the means of exchange. It was held that socialism, with free access to everything, there would be no exchange of goods; hence, to talk of the common ownership of the means of exchange was to show misunderstanding from the start.” SocialismSpgbCommon Ownership Author:Robert Barltrop
“The first premises of the Party...were two rooms above a corner junk shop, up two flights of rickety stairs. 'One felt' said a veteran member forty five years later in the Socialist Standard, that one was entering 'the heart of deep red revolution'.” SocialismSpgb Author:Robert Barltrop
“Little attention was paid to current events. The view was taken that if a man knew Marx's Theory of Value and the progress of society from early times he was equipped to analyze anything.” MarxSpgb Author:Robert Barltrop
“...the Party member's books represented ammunition in the class struggle rather than any desire for knowledge for its own sake.” Class StruggleSpgb Author:Robert Barltrop
“What distinguished these revolutionary socialists from other 'characters' was the seriousness with which they practised unconventionality and assailed the world around them. Rebels and bohemians were confused emotionalists; only scientific socialism showed morality, respectability and conventional learning as despicable props of the capitalist system.” SpgbScientific Socialism Author:Robert Barltrop
“The pressures and penalties of existence in the modern capitalist system are intense; and they are penalties not for what is consciously chosen, but for ways of life which are forced like strait-jackets on people. At its superficial level, there is a common feeling of being conned by mass communications, extorted by commerce, lied to by politicians and treated like dirt by bureaucrats.” CapitalismSpgb Author:Robert Barltrop
“Everyone outside the Party was a fool or a knave. They wrote up Professor Joad in the Standard, and a gentle reader complained of the epithets - 'ignoramous', 'fathead', etc; the EC informed him that they thought the words precise and correct.” SpgbProfessor Joad Author:Robert Barltrop