The New York City summer is killing me. The heat is turned up to 11(1) and Pub Rock's on the telly. It's five years since I last did this on the blog. Did what exactly? Roll out the cut and paste from 2020 please:
"At the time of writing, listed below are the most popular Socialist Standard articles on the blog from a particular year. It stands to reason that the longer an article or review has been on the blog, the more 'hits' it has, but that is not always the case. Some articles of a more theoretical bent have received successive waves of hits years after they were originally posted on the blog. Hopefully that's food for thought for current writers and editors of the Standard . . ."
What's the purpose of such a list now? Well, it's half-fun/half-monomania . . . a bloke's insistence on compiling lists. It's always interesting to see what articles and reviews catches people's attention. And, comparing the list below with the list from 2020, it's interesting to note that the lists are not a carbon copy of each other . . . plus the added 5 years. The following years have different articles listed as the most popular:
1905,1912, 1913,1920, 1921, 1924, 1927,1931, 1932, 1933, 19391940, 1941, 1942, 1945, 1946, 1947, 19491952, 19591960, 19651973, 19791983, 19881993, 1995, 19982001, 2004, 2005, 20082020
That's 34 individual years which have switched top ranking articles. Over a quarter of the entries. That's strangely reassuring for reasons I can't properly explain.
To access the articles below, just click on the individual years next to the listed article.
1900s
- 1904: The Futility of Reform.
- 1905: The Commune in Paris.
- 1906: "The Need for 'Intellectuals' "
- 1907: Riot and Revolution: Speech by Rosa Luxemburg on Trial for Inciting to Riot
- 1908: The People
- 1909: Sark!
1910s
- 1910: Remember Tonypandy!
- 1911: The Attempted Suppression of Free Speech in Islington.
- 1912: The Class Struggle On Board The "Titanic."
- 1913: So Near and Yet So Far.
- 1914: Jottings.
- 1915: What is Patriotism? An Analysis.
- 1916: Scrag-Ends.
- 1917: "Ghosts".
- 1918: The Call.
- 1919: Editorial: What We Want.
1920s
- 1920: The Russian Dictatorship.
- 1921: 'When Labour Rules.' A review of Mr. Thomas's book.
- 1922: The Collapse of Capitalism
- 1923: Socialism and the Fascisti
- 1924: The Passing of Lenin.
- 1925: Prohibition.
- 1926: Who wrote the Communist Manifesto of 1847?
- 1927: Letter: A discussion of the Money Question.
- 1928: Trotsky States His Case
- 1929: Another Life of Marx: Queues at Truth
1930s
- 1930: A Commentary on the Communist Manifesto
- 1931: The Socialist Forum.
- 1932: Socialists and War.
- 1933: Debate. S.P.G.B. versus The Communist Party
- 1934: Bolshevism: Past and Present
- 1935: The Socialist Party of Australia: A Splendid Election Fight
- 1936: A Letter From Russia
- 1937: Editorial: The Popular Front: A False Issue
- 1938: Why I Joined the S.P.G.B.
- 1939: The Real Russia
1940s
- 1940: The State and the Socialist Revolution
- 1941: Obituary: Eva Torf Judd
- 1942: Political Parties and the Workers
- 1943: The Barbary Coast
- 1944: The Scottish Workers' Congress: Curious Stuff from Glasgow
- 1945: The Dennis O’Neill case
- 1946: Uncensored News and Views on Russia
- 1947: What is a Spiv?
- 1948: Money Will Go
- 1949: Death of a Clown
1950s
- 1950: Passing Comments: China
- 1951: Reflections
- 1952: Another Wandering "Intellectual"
- 1953: "I've always been respectable"
- 1954: The General Strike
- 1955: English Social Democratic Parties
- 1956: Anarchist Reformism
- 1957: Drum
- 1958: Editorial: The Same Old I.L.P.
- 1959: The Rise of the Meritocracy
1960s
- 1960: Apartheid
- 1961: The Spectre Haunting Kruschev
- 1962: Editorial: The Colossal Waste of Capitalism
- 1963: Branch News
- 1964: Michael Harrington's The Other America
- 1965: Confusion on the left
- 1966: Open Letter to the War Resisters' International
- 1967: Obituary: W. Craske
- 1968: Prejudice and Pride
- 1969: Rosa Luxemburg and the Collapse of Capitalism
1970s
- 1970: Listen, Anarchist!
- 1971: Squaring the Circle
- 1972: A Tenth of Marx's 'Grundrisse'
- 1973: Marx’s Conception of Socialism
- 1974: The way to deal with Fascism
- 1975: Spectacle out of focus
- 1976: Why I Joined the SPGB
- 1977: Free Speech: official cuts
- 1978: Against the Left (Part 3)
- 1979: Political Notebook: Boo, Hiss
1980s
- 1980: Karl Marx and the abolition of money
- 1981: Ghost of Christmas Past
- 1982: Taboo
- 1983: It was reported . . .
- 1984: Guru on the spot
- 1985: Socialism and rock music
- 1986: Then and Now
- 1987: Socialism and Calculation
- 1988: Japan and socialism
- 1989: The Gorbachev cuts
1990s
- 1990: Morris and Revolution
- 1991: The Eileen Critchley Show
- 1992: Sting in the Tail: Labour Sees Stars
- 1993: “Abolish Money” – Sinéad O'Connor
- 1994: The Death of Marxism?
- 1995: The ghost of Christmas yet to come
- 1996: A striking example of mutiny
- 1997: Star Trek: First Contact
- 1998: Artificial scarcity
- 1999: The Cult of Leadership
2000s
- 2000: John Ruskin, 1819-1900: A Socialist Perspective
- 2001: How socialism could increase food production
- 2002: The New Reformism
- 2003: Robert Tressell and the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
- 2004: Lenin: a socialist analysis
- 2005: Hugo Chavez: revolutionary socialist or leftwing reformist?
- 2006: Driven From Eden? - Was the Neolithic Revolution entirely a good thing?
- 2007: Unvarnished History of the Panama Canal
- 2008: World Bankers
- 2009: Who’s afraid of the BNP?
2010s
- 2010: Capitalism breeds inequality
- 2011: Djanogly – One Of The Family
- 2012: Split
- 2013: Digging up the Dirt
- 2014: A Lack of Imagination
- 2015: Scarce Resources
- 2016: Cooking the Books: Dreaming of Ending Poverty
- 2017: MMT: New Theory, Old Illusion
- 2018: Pathfinders: Space Oddity
- 2019: The Destruction of Nature: by Anton Pannekoek
2020s
- 2020: Book Review: The End of the Megamachine by Fabian Scheidler
- 2021: Countdown to COP26 – Part 2
- 2022: British fascists online
- 2023: Bird’s Eye View: Howlers
- 2024: Video Review: German cultural history and socialism
Back to the Pub Rock and my sweating eyeballs. Wait up, do The Toy Dolls really qualify as Pub Rock?
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