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SYMPTOMS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC DECLINE.

My previous article (The End of Empires) provided a general historical overview of the decline and fall of hierarchical mass society amalgamations, whether designated as ’empires’ or not. That previous analysis noted that the organisational life-span of such ‘amalgamations’ has … Continue reading

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THE DECLINE & FALL OF EMPIRES.

It is fairly common knowledge that there have been a number of significant Empires in the past history of the human species. The term ’empire’ is used retrospectively to refer to an amalgamation of hierarchical mass societies, whose ruling elites … Continue reading

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THE WORKING CLASS & REVOLUTION.

In a previous article entitled (Gaps between Ideas and Reality’) I made the case for recognising that the anthropocentric view of workers revolution that most of the 20th century and current 21st century anticapitalist left are following is a purely  … Continue reading

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GAPS BETWEEN IDEAS & REALITY.

In the disciplines of science and technology, a reconciliation of any gap between theory and practice (or differences between ideas and reality) is resolved by controlled experiments, unprejudiced observation of them and repeated confirmation of any results, whether positive or … Continue reading

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MORE LEFT ANTHROPOCENTRIC CONFUSION (Part 2)

In a previous article on this blog site entitled MORE LEFT ANTHROPOCENTRIC CONFUSION, I pointed out how the left in general and the Anticapitalist left in particular, remain trapped in the dominant anthropocentric paradigm established during the long history of … Continue reading

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MORE LEFT ANTHROPOCENTRIC CONFUSION.

Every time the problems of life on earth are addressed from within an Anthropocentric biased form of ideology, the solutions proposed are almost certain to be way off the mark, full of needless abstractions and therefore categorically wrong. A recent … Continue reading

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A LEFT ECO-SOCIALIST MANIFESTO.

This April I came across an article announcing a manifesto also arguing for an eco-socialist revolution, written by individuals from an organisation called the Fourth International. Its opening paragraph stated the following; “This Manifesto is a document of the Fourth … Continue reading

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BACK TO THE FUTURE – AGAIN?

There has been a trend in recent years in which some of the inheritors of what has been widely called the Marxist tradition, have become less enamoured by the great men of this particular line of anti-capitalist revolutionary thinking. This … Continue reading

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TRADE WARS & TARIFF’s. (2025)

As usual among politicians and the media, there has been a lot of half-baked, half understood, but unthought out disagreements concerning the application of Tariffs on goods or services entering a country from another country. There has been the anti-Trump … Continue reading

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ELITE INSTIGATED WARS & CIVIL WARS. (Part 2)

I hope this part 2 will be useful for those readers who are not familiar with the dark side of the history of hierarchical mass societies, because only those who have not understood that long history, can conclude that this … Continue reading

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