PU: Revolutionary Works of Seamus Costello. Just finished the piece on abolishing ground rents.
TPQ: Best and worst books you have ever read?
PU: Tough questions. Worst book: Atlas Shrugged. Best book: 1984.
TPQ: Book most cherished as a child?
PU: Perhaps Alice in Wonderland.
TPQ: Favourite Childhood author?
PU: Probably Tolkien.
TPQ: First book to really own you?
PU: Lord of the Rings.
TPQ: First book to really own you?
PU: Lord of the Rings.
TPQ: Favourite male and female author?
PU: Non-fiction: Karl Marx and Rosa Luxemburg; Fiction: Mark Twain and Ursala Le Guin.
TPQ: A preference for fact or fiction?
TPQ: A preference for fact or fiction?
PU: Preference is for Non-Fiction, generally history.
TPQ: Biography, autobiography or memoir that most impressed you?
TPQ: Biography, autobiography or memoir that most impressed you?
PU: Maybe Homage To Catalonia.
TPQ: Any author or book you point blank refuse to read?
PU: I refuse to read any more Ayn Rand.
TPQ: A book to share with somebody so that they would more fully understand you?
PU: Anti-Bolshevik Communism by Paul Mattick.
TPQ: A book to share with somebody so that they would more fully understand you?
PU: Anti-Bolshevik Communism by Paul Mattick.
TPQ: Last book you gave as a present?
PU: Paul Mattick's Anti-Bolshevik Communism.
TPQ: Book you would most like to see turned into a movie?
PU: Just a stab in the dark, but maybe Hesse's Beneath the Wheel.
TPQ: The just must - select one book you simply have to read before you close the final page on life.
PU: Paul Mattick's Anti-Bolshevik Communism.
TPQ: Book you would most like to see turned into a movie?
PU: Just a stab in the dark, but maybe Hesse's Beneath the Wheel.
TPQ: The just must - select one book you simply have to read before you close the final page on life.
PU: Book I must read before dying - I simply have no idea.
Is there any chance of a response from the person who received the copy of Anti-Bolshevik Communism and if they more fully understood Peter after reading it?
ReplyDeleteI loved the detectable hesitancy in the responses - as if you were spoiled for choice Peter and a bit reluctant to commit. I have that feeling myself in relation to books so it is good to see a kindred spirit.
ReplyDeleteAyn Rand, I never got into despite having her work here. Mick Hall used to pull me up for quoting her in The Blanket!!
Thanks for doing this for TPQ.
Loved 1984
How are ye Peter, long time no see. Anti Bolshevik Communism is self explanatory I supposse. To me communism is an international concept which may differ slightly from country to country, with a series of common goals. Public ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange under workers control, something the USSR lost sight of particularly (though not exclusively under Stalin). The break up of bourgeois society and class power is important, in fact essential for proletariat control and democracy in its true sense in the workplace to flurish, in the regions and internationaly. As Lenin pointed out to Rossa Luxemburg transfering the conditions of largely peasant society like Russia to an advanced industrial country was not a good idea. The material conditions were different, as was, I suspect Lenins interpretation of communism to Rossas.
ReplyDeleteI must read Anti Bolshevik Communism.