Category Archives: capitalism

JE SUIS CHARLIE

Posted on January 9, 2015 by stutteringsteps

The fact that expressing an opinion which offends somebody, can now get you killed makes us all potentially ‘je suis charlie’.  Unless of course, we bow the knee to those who are prepared to kill and maim in order to … Continue reading →

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1939 – 1945! CAPITALISMS 2nd GLOBAL WAR!

Posted on November 4, 2014 by stutteringsteps

In a previous article, (1914 – 1918: Capitalisms First Global War,) documentary evidence was presented, to support an assertion that the mainstream media and historians in the west generally ignore. The contention in that article was that; the underlying economic … Continue reading →

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BOMBS AND BOMBAST!

Posted on September 27, 2014 by stutteringsteps

As was to be expected, the western political elite this month have demonstrated their complete inability to see the wood for the trees. This week the world was treated to the surreal spectacle of so-called world ‘leaders’ mounting the rostrum … Continue reading →

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ELEVEN THESES.

Posted on September 16, 2014 by stutteringsteps

1. Capitalism has long outlived any historical usefulness its many advocates may have claimed. As a system of economic and social organisation it creates the following existential contradictions: Obscene extremes of poverty and wealth; continual wars over resources and markets; … Continue reading →

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CAPITALISM’S ‘Catch 22’

Posted on September 7, 2014 by stutteringsteps

The term ‘Catch 22’ was immortalised in a book of the same title by Joseph Heller. It arose out of the experiences of an American bomber pilot during the Second World War (1939-45), but it is equally applicable to the … Continue reading →

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DIVERSITY – within – UNITY?

Posted on August 25, 2014 by stutteringsteps

Variety and uniformity along with unity and diversity are often counter-posed as opposites, yet this phenomenon of unity opposed to diversity or diversity opposed to unity is rarely found in real life. Nevertheless, the former is frequently active within the … Continue reading →

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THE DIALECTICS OF DISCONTENT.

Posted on August 12, 2014 by stutteringsteps

The past and present atrocities committed by the advanced capitalist countries of UK, Europe and North America are now being matched, but not yet exceeded, by those of the militant Islamists in Syria and Iraq and the equally militant fundamentalist … Continue reading →

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1914 – 1918: CAPITALISMS 1st GLOBAL WAR!

Posted on August 1, 2014 by stutteringsteps

Much has already been said this year (2014), about the causes of the First World War. Its military and political personnel, their conduct, and its positive or negative outcomes have once again been extensively reviewed. Such was the scale of … Continue reading →

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EDUCATION AND VALUES.

Posted on June 15, 2014 by stutteringsteps

The recent controversy in the (as yet) United Kingdom concerning education in the city of Birmingham has much wider implications than this one city.  The questions of what values in the 21st century need to be part of a schools … Continue reading →

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FINANCIAL POWER & POLITICS.

Posted on June 13, 2014 by stutteringsteps

Like any other sector of bourgeois capitalist societies, the political class can and often does develop its own discrete interests and evolutionary path.  At times these political sectors can depart from the interests of the capitalist system as a whole, … Continue reading →

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