My personal feelings on this - others may disagree, is that actually, we
match Carpenter in a number of ways.

As a group, we have widely mixed incomes, freedoms, skills and so on. We
value what everyone brings to the group to share whether it be skills,
time, money etc.

By engaging with the group, people's outlooks are changed, whether by
becoming more in tune with them selves, or exposed to and appreciative
of others in different circumstances (or both).

I would not say that everybody comes to the group with socialist ideals,
but I think that joining in with the groups activities brings those
ideals to life for people in personal rather than political ways.

But more important than any of that for me is that making friends in
this group has enriched my life in deeper and broader ways than anything
else I can think of. I am far away now, living in China, but I still
think of the friends I have made in ECC as my family.

Chris.

On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 10:57 +0000, davy wrote:
> Hello all
> Has anybody read Sheila Rowbotham's recently published biography of
> Edward Carpenter ?
> And how would ECC generally relate to Carpenters socialist politics ?
> Davy
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