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POLITICS REALLY IS THE PROBLEM.

During the last few weeks there have been two notable events in the UK which have relevance to the contemporary global political and climate/ecological situation. The first was an invitation only conference in London on the 27th November 2025 addressed … Continue reading

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LIFE ON EARTH

Life on Earth’ (Past, Present & Future) (From a Revolutionary-Humanist & Giaia-centric Perpective) The above heading is the title of a book I have written and will soon be published. The back cover of the book bears the following blurb. … Continue reading

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IS IT: MAN & NATURE or NATURE & MAN?

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.

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?

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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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