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EXCEPTIONALISM, NARCISSISM & GENOCIDE (3

Posted on January 9, 2024 by stutteringsteps

Part 3. Genocide; (Victims and Perpetrators.) The research mentioned in part 2 of this article, also found in a variety of cases, that where they are able, such narcissistic exceptionalist ingroups feel entitled to punish members of other groups (or … Continue reading →

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EXCEPTIONALISM, NARCISSISM & GENOCIDE (2)

Posted on January 4, 2024 by stutteringsteps

Part 2. Narcissism; (Collective and Individual) For most people, the term narcissism usually applies to characteristics of exaggerated egocentric exceptionalism as manifested by an individual within a larger community. In such cases, there are currently two recognised ‘states’ or conditions … Continue reading →

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EXCEPTIONALISM, NARCISSISM & GENOCIDE. (1)

Posted on December 31, 2023 by stutteringsteps

Part 1. Exceptionalism. When one group of people systematically kills another group of people, then some very powerful collective emotion and practical ambition is obviously driving this behaviour. Therefore, it is not very instructive to describe the phenomenon of mass … Continue reading →

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ELITES WHO ABANDONED HUMANITY.

Posted on December 19, 2023 by stutteringsteps

Every vote at the United Nations Assembly on the suspension of hostilities in Gaza  has revealed the impoverished moral condition of world’s elites in the year 2023. Particularly if it is born in mind that it took weeks of scenes … Continue reading →

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2023: THE END OF A DREAM (4)

Posted on December 8, 2023 by stutteringsteps

Part 4. The necessity of revolutionary leadership. For most of the 20th century, there was a dream among a minority of the worlds populations, that a revolution to overthrow the exploitative mode of production known as capitalism, was both necessary … Continue reading →

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2023: THE END OF A DREAM (3).

Posted on November 28, 2023 by stutteringsteps

Part 3. Truth, the first casualty of war. It has long been a cliche that the first casualty of any war is the truth. This cliche applies to much more than military wars, but certainly military and civil wars contain … Continue reading →

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2023: THE END OF A DREAM (2)

Posted on November 25, 2023 by stutteringsteps

Part 2. Elite interest quickly dissolves elite integrity. That sordid reality mentioned at the end of Part 1, is the fact that elite, self-interested commitment to having a share in the available and potential profitable resources of the globe is … Continue reading →

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2023: THE END OF A DREAM. (1)

Posted on November 23, 2023 by stutteringsteps

Part 1. Nationalism versus Humanity. For most working people, the dream of a benign nationhood has long been over. It now also looks as if it is over for the people of Palestine. The abstraction ‘nation‘ has always hidden far … Continue reading →

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CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.

Posted on November 14, 2023 by stutteringsteps

Two events in Ukraine and Palestine have come to dominate the year 2023, in the form of invasions of territory by powerful armed forces. Both have contained numerous instances of what can be defined as crimes against humanity. Both these … Continue reading →

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PALESTINE: A HISTORICAL CONTEXT 3.

Posted on November 9, 2023 by stutteringsteps

Part 3. Stuck-in-the-box solutions. Unfortunately, a degree of intellectual confusion and even bankruptcy extends to the left in most of its reformist and anti-capitalist shades. The best solution to the Israel Palestine problem that can be suggested by those on … Continue reading →

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