I’ve been reflecting on the career and achievements of Chris Tame:
Those being three more photos of Chris that I recently exhumed from my “filing system”.
Below is a list of the pieces of writing by him that were published (in some cases republished) by the Libertarian Alliance.
Political Notes 27
The Bankruptcy of the New Socialists
1987, 2pp.Political Notes 40
On The Side of the Angels: A View of Private Policing
1989, 2pp.Political Notes 41
Conservatives and the Closed Shop
1984, 4pp.Political Notes 44
Taxation Is Theft
1989, 2pp.Political Notes 148
The Case Against a Bill of Rights
1989, 7pp.Philosophical Notes 1
The Moral Case For Private Enterprise
1985, 4pp.
Not availablePhilosophical Notes 2
Is Freedom Selfish?: A Debate
(with Michael Ivens)
1985, 4pp.Legal Notes 20
Why Sado-Masochism Should Not Be Criminalised (Evidence to the Law Commission on Consent and Offences Against the Person)
1994, 4pp.Legal Notes 30
Freedom, Responsibility and Justice: The Criminology of the ‘New Right’
1998, 7pp.Cultural Notes 1
Ernest Hemingway and the Failure of Nihilism
1983, 2pp.Historical Notes 6
An Economic Misinterpretation of History: A Critique of J. K. Galbraith’s Account of American Capitalism
1989, 6pp.Historical Notes 8
Power, Class and the State in Twentieth Century America
1989, 7pp.Sociological Notes 1
Man, Concepts and Society
1987, 4pp.Sociological Notes 2
Change and Pseudo-Change in Sociology
1986, 4pp.Foreign Policy Perspectives 5
Hong Kong: Another British Betrayal
1988, 2pp.Foreign Policy Perspectives 16
Hypocrisy in the ‘Peace’ Movement: A Case Study
1990, 2pp.Libertarian Pamphlets 1
Against the New Mercantilism: The Relevance of Adam Smith
1979, 4pp.Libertarian Pamphlets 2
Prostitution, The Free Market and Libertarianism (Includes LA Evidence to the Criminal Law Revision Committee of the Home Office on Sexual Offences)
File currently unavailableLibertarian Pamphlets 8
Environmentalism and Totalitarianism: An Obituary for Modern ‘Liberalism’
1987, 4pp.Libertarian Pamphlets 9
The Politics of Whim: A Critique of the `Situationist’ Version of Marxism
1989, 4pp.Libertarian Pamphlets 14
Libertarianism versus Conservatism: A Debate
(with Gerry Frost)
1989, 11pp.Libertarian Reprints 1
Different Values: An Analysis of Patrick McGoohan’s The Prisoner, 1984, 6pp.Libertarian Reprints 7
Sanitising Marx
1984, 2pp.Libertarian Reprints 8
The Chicago School: Lessons From The Thirties For The Eighties
1984, 2pp.
File currently unavailableLibertarian Reprints 9
Stirner in Context: The Profanization of Hegelianism and the Genesis of Marx’s Historical Materialism
1984, 2pp.
File currently unavailableLibertarian Heritage 7
The Revolution of Reason: Peter Gay, The Enlightenment and the Ambiguities of Classical Liberalism
1992, 7pp.Libertarian Heritage 12
Guy Aldred (1886-1963): The Socialist As Libertarian
1994, 2pp.Libertarian Heritage 19
The Critical Liberalism of J. M. Robertson (1856-1933)
1998, 19pp.
This list didn’t take me long to contrive, but it did take longer than I thought it would. There were more than I had been expecting. They were mostly written and published towards the beginning of the LA publications surge that I presided over. I know for sure that Chris had plenty more that he wanted to write, but then his bone cancer got him.
All good writings – from a good man, the late Dr Chris Tame.