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> In the 1970s Caudwell's work was in print with Lawrence and Wishart, and was by default the first port of call for anyone interested in Marxism and art. I spied a copy of his Art and Illusion on the shelves of the fantastic poet Tony Harrison when he was being interviewed on the TV.
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> Lastly, Charles makes the argument that we are not the same people we were. This same argument was made by the reactionary Joseph Barker, defending slavery and himself against charges of inconsistency, as recorded by a contemporary, the Chartist Adams:
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> At one meeting, Barker was challenged from the audience, a letter in his name of some years earlier, against slavery was produced. Was he the Joseph Barker who had written it? ‘No,’ was the astonishing reply. ‘It is, as everybody knows, a physiological fact that the particles of the human frame are all changed in the course of every seven years. More than seven years have elapsed since that letter was written; therefore I am not the Joseph Barker who wrote it!’ W.E. Adams, Memoirs of a Social Atom, 1968, p 400
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CB: Good point, James , although in this case, don't have to go to the molecular level. Evidently, Joseph Barker had changed in that he had changed his opinion on slavery. He had turned into his opposite.