Category Archives: Critique

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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ELITE INSTIGATED WARS & CIVIL WARS.

It should by now have become clear from the first months of the Trump Government, that the political split between the radical Republican populists of the Trump/Musk and the neo-liberal populists of the current Democratic Party in the USA, has … Continue reading

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A NEW WORLD ORDER?

Many commentators are currently speculating that the proliferation of outstanding events unfolding in the 21st century are a result of the dying pains of the American dominated century and the growing pains of an emerging Asian dominated century. It has … Continue reading

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ADAM SMITH & ECONOMIC ANTHROPOCENTRISM.

Perhaps the clearest expression of anthropocentric type thinking appears within the discipline of economics. Like mathematics, everything purely outside of a human-centred viewpoint is either represented abstractly or totally ignored within such fields of study. Whilst mathematics in its anthropocentric … Continue reading

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