Category Archives: Critique

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO REVOLUTION?

Posted on October 2, 2025 by stutteringsteps

Everywhere on the left, even the so-called revolutionary left, all that agitates them recently concerning the socio-economic condition of the mass of the human species and its place within nature are demands for workers rights, some limited protections for the … Continue reading →

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IS IT: MAN & NATURE or NATURE & MAN?

Posted on September 3, 2025 by stutteringsteps

In the relative position the reader sequences these two simple dualistic patriarchal triads lies the difference between humanity continuing with ruling class ideologies and eventual social collapse or adopting a Gaia-centric future for life on earth and ensuring a positive … Continue reading →

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MARX AND LIFE BEYOND CAPITAL.

Posted on August 10, 2025 by stutteringsteps

Early on in his 19th century radical researches, Karl Marx, published an article in the form of a letter to his fellow editor Arnold Ruge, and after commenting that in his homeland Germany, ‘stupidity itself rules supreme’, he went on … Continue reading →

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IS GOING BEYOND CAPITAL ENOUGH?

Posted on July 31, 2025 by stutteringsteps
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SYMPTOMS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC DECLINE.

Posted on July 21, 2025 by stutteringsteps

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.

Posted on June 28, 2025 by stutteringsteps

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.

Posted on June 9, 2025 by stutteringsteps

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.

Posted on May 31, 2025 by stutteringsteps

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)

Posted on May 22, 2025 by stutteringsteps

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.

Posted on May 13, 2025 by stutteringsteps

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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