22 Quotes by 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.

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’.

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.

The road to the new society had lengthened and become overgrown sadly since 1904. The working class in many thousands had been shown its errors in thinking, but persisted in them. Very well: the working class must have the rigours of capitalism, and if the rigours were harsh – it serves them right for not accepting socialism.