The Front Page quote from the April 1939 issue of the Socialist Standard
"The laws of economics . . . . . . have triumphed over all illusions and have shown themselves to be the directing power of social life ”
Labriola.
This Month’s Quotation
The quotation on the front page is from Labriola’s “Essays on the Materialist Conception of History” (p. 167).
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Starting in January 1939, and continuing on until December 1941, every issue of the Socialist Standard carried a quotation on its front cover.
More often than not the quoted person was someone famous in their respective field and it's interesting to note the range of individuals selected for inclusion in this exclusive and rarefied company. IYou know I'm joking, right?)
As mentioned above the practice was discontinued in 1942, and my guess it was when wartime paper rationing kicked in and the Editorial Committee for the Standard realised that they no longer had the luxury of being able to have a standalone front cover. It was now the case that every inch of the magazine had to have (socialist) text crammed into it.
A shame, really, because the inclusion of these quotes month-on-month gave a wee window into the SPGB that hitherto was unavailable. This is all the more true for the reader and/or transcriber 75 plus years on.
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