ABSTRACT
Geoff pilling penetrating and painstaking critiques of orthodox British Marxist political economists and of Keynesianism were never made in the pursuit of academic recognition. He was deeply worried for his young grandsons, Dylan and Travis, and all future generations about what would happen if capitalist society were not replaced by socialism. The socialist society Geoff envisaged bore no relationship to the so-called communism of the Soviet bloc. Indeed, he saw the collapse of that bloc, and of Communist parties, as providing a tremendous opportunity to build a new political party which would be a step towards creating a socialist society. Geoff subsequently joined the Socialist Labour League, to which Cliff Slaughter had been attracted when he left the Communist party because of Khrushchev’s revelations about Stalinism and the Soviet Union’s crushing of the 1956 Hungarian revolution.
