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Reasons to be Cheerful - Mark Steel

 

Description: ISBN 0743208048 / Author: Mark Steel / Genre: Biography / A passionate and very funny memoir of 25 years of political activism - Ben ... more
Reasons to be Cheerful - Mark Steel ... Elton meets John O'Farrell's THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER Brief Description 'Telling someone from Swanley about the tedium of your small town is like saying to Nelson Mandela I've had hassle from the old Bill myself, so I know how you fell mate'. Mark Steel was born in suburbia and raised by working class parents, so naturally he became an Angry Young Man.

Newest Review: ... a vibrant and extremely funny read. Those looking for some insight on life in the SWP would do well to flick through these ... more

 ... pages. Steel accepts the theory of state capitalism - not because someone sat him down and lectured him on economics for years, but because it was an answer to the problem of being a socialist during the Cold War. It enabled him to become political without needing a picture of Brezhnev on the kitchen wall. Comrade Steel, in common with many SWP members, seems to exhibit the odd contradiction of being a consistent critic and opponent of capitalism whose critical faculties do not function when it comes to the organisat...more

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kevin_dav
Premium Review Reasons to be Cheerful - Mark Steel: intersting insight into the SWP (289 words)
by kevin_dav - written on 16.05.02 (Very useful, 137 readings)
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Mark Steel presents his own personal memoirs as a member of the Socialist Workers Party. There is much with which most activists will empathise. What could well have been a fairly depressing tale of how many papers he sold one Saturday, how many recruits he got at Marxism 1992 and how he had been consistently on the losing side for the last 20 years is in fact a vibrant and extremely funny read. Those looking for some insight on life in the SWP would do well to flick through these pages. Steel accepts the theory of state capitalism - not because someone sat him down and lectured him on economics for years, but because it was an answer to the problem of being a ...

robqueen
Premium Review it's not easy being a Socialist Worker in Swanley (730 words)
by robqueen - written on 19.12.01 (Very useful, 210 readings)
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Mark Steel is a rarity - a Marxist with a sense of humour. And in this book, he tells the story of his political life, from his first, tentative but guilt-ridden commmunist leanings in the strike-ridden 90s, to his all-out political opposition through the Thatcher years, to his disillusionment under New Labour. Steel makes his living as a comedian, and it shows - this book takes what could have been very dry subject matter, and piles on laugh after laugh. A lot of the humour comes from the very earnestness with which he and his pals fight for their various causes. For example, there was an occasion which had been billed as a huge protest march. Steel eagerly ...

 
 
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