Out of the Burning House: Political Socialization in the Age of Affluence
About this ebook
As students together in the MacMillan Era, they shared an attachment to socialist, secular and scientific values. Like Brecht, they saw those unwilling to commit to revolutionary socialism as like people in a burning house asking if it is raining outside before they agree to escape.
They followed different paths in their subsequent lives: one became an historian and long-time member of the Communist Party; the other, although a radical behaviourist, unusually focussed on contemporary folklore and child labour.
About the author
Willie Thompson was formerly Professor of Modern History at Glasgow Caledonian University. He is the author of The Good Old Cause, a history of the Communist Party, of which he was a member until its dissolution in 1991. Other works include Ideologies in the Age of Extremes.
