https://livesteven.com/2026/11/01/no-song-ever-on-its-own-changes-your-life-but-when-i-heard-jonas-patrick-marvin-speak-about-his-2026-book-the-breaking-of-the-english-working-class-i-thought-afterwards-the-song-might-break-me-up-f/Steve_Bamlett_blogen2026-11-01T16:28:56+00:00No song ever on its own changes your life, but when I heard Jonas Patrick Marvin speak about his 2026 book, The Breaking of the English Working Class, I thought afterwards the song might break me up further we, my class, are broken.This is really a blog on Jonas Patrick Marvin (2026) ‘The Breaking of the English Working Class’ London & New York, Verso.dailyprompt, politics, history, philosophy, marxism, socialism, dailyprompt-2933, jonas-patrick-marvin, the-breaking-of-the-english-working-class, paramorehttps://livesteven.com/2026/10/31/opressively-articulated-though-it-is-there-is-a-point-in-william-james-dictum-about-the-false-ethical-values-of-his-and-our-century-the-moral-flabbiness-born-of-the-bitch-goddess-success-that/Steve_Bamlett_blogen2026-10-31T09:58:07+00:00Opressively articulated though it is, there is a point in William James’ dictum about the false ethical values of his, and our, century: ‘The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That — with the squalid interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease’. [William James to H.G. Wells, Sept. 11, 1906]dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2937