/lit/ - Literature

>>10693192
If that is the case i wish you well and if i could i would refund you any money for that purchase if you found it to be trash and below your expectations.
It's simple, to the point, biographical and just to me speaks so much sense

>IN MANY, WAYS it would have been better for a book of this sort to have been written by a person detached from day-to-day preoccupation with political affairs. Yet, as I come to write, I begin to see that there are advantages possessed by a political practitioner like myself that are denied to anyone living a more cloistered life; for in the pattern of my own activities has been woven the main strands of the political epoch which began with the end of the great war of 1914-1918.

>I started my political life with no clearly formed personal ambition as to what I wanted to be, or where I wanted to go. I leave that nonsense to the writers of romantic biographies. A young miner in a South Wales colliery, my concern was with the one practical question:
>Where does power lie in this particular State of Great Britain, and how can it be attained by the workers?
>No doubt this is the same question as the one to which the savants of political theory are fond of addressing themselves, but there is a world of difference in the way it shaped itself for young workers like myself.
>It was no abstract question for us.
>The circumstances of our lives made it a burning, luminous mark of interrogation.
>Where was power and which the road to it?

>It will be seen at once that the question formulated itself in different fashion for us than it would have done in a new, pioneering society or in the mind of someone equipped by a long formal education. In such cases the question shapes itself in some such fashion . . .

Stay sharp lad.