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Socialist Standard magazine December 2008 -

Front cover : ‘Money Stalks’ - The Benefits of a Moneyless Society
Editorial – ‘How to Lose Friends and Alienate People’
Articles –
‘Five Reasons to Get Rid of Money’
‘The Return of Karl Marx’
‘Robert Owen: Paternalist Utopian’
‘Electrickery’ (electric cars)
‘Why We Need a Theory’

Regular features -
Pathfinders (pop science / technology) – ‘Future al Fresco, or the House That Jacque Built’ (re Venus Project)
Material World – ‘The Next Capitalist Frontier’ (re Helium-3)’
Pieces Together – news cuttings from mainstream media
Cooking the Books 1 (economics) – ‘Keynes Rides Again’
Cooking the Books 2 – ‘The Myth of Magic Money’
50 Years Ago – ‘Borstal Boy’ (Brendan Behan)
Greasy Pole – ‘Lucky Gordon?’
Voice From the Back - selected news items
Free Lunch – cartoon
Plus letters, reviews, contacts, etc.

Also see www.worldsocialism.org and http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/