Reject
About 10 years ago I wrote the blog post below but didn’t publish it, just held onto it as an idea I never used. Here it is –
I am not a socialist. I “did” socialism decades ago, but never subscribed to any political label. However, a few weeks ago I wandered into a charity shop and came out with a rather battered old copy of R H Tawney’s “The Acquisitive Society.” A quick browse showed it to be pleasantly fluent and it only cost me £1.50.
The book was published in 1920, shortly after the end of the First World War, amid a widespread feeling that there had to be a better future and that future had to be open to all, not just the elite and the middle classes. So I’ll read it and write a number of posts as I go.
The basic idea is to explore influences, how we reach conclusions and what it says about our preconceptions. How we might even change our minds if we risk delving into what has become mildly unfamiliar territory from an age where perhaps moral principles were less overtly political than they are today.
Most generations, it might be said, walk in a path which they neither make, nor discover, but accept; the main thing is that they should march.
R H Tawney – The Acquisitive Society (1920)
I don’t know how many posts this will amount to. If I sling the book in the charity bag, then not many, but at least I’ll explain why.
To learn from the past there has to be something of lasting value, something which still applies today, at least as a contrast between then and now. From what little I read of it, R H Tawney’s book has that, but it isn’t the message he thought we should listen to.
Source: https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2025/06/reject.html
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